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Opening The Door to Love or Closing the Door to Love
* * * In celebration of Valentine’s Day this weekend, instead of a little Friday Fiction, I’m featuring two poems I wrote. I don’t write poetry as much as I did when I was younger, but every once in a while I’m moved to write something. The first poem is about opening up to love in Dr. Seuss rhyming style, and the second is about closing the door to love and being brokenhearted in prose style. I figured I’d cover both bases. Hope yours is rather more like the former and less like the latter. Happy Valentine’s Weekend… If Only You Dare | by S. Verni Love can grow from…
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Found on the Cutting Room Floor
Sometimes I like to torture myself by reading first drafts of stuff I’ve written. Some of it’s just really, really bad, and then I come across something that makes me pause. I read it and wonder why I left it on the cutting room floor. This is what I came across this today: When I am with you, There’s a feeling of forever, For the love I have for you Is by far my greatest pleasure. A love so simple, yet divine Ages gracefully like wine. You are my happiness— You make my heart sing— Being with you Is my favorite thing. It was a poem written for one of…
