A Valentine’s Vitriology

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A Valentine’s Vitriology

(On the Underestimated Consequences of Valentine’s Day)

Do you look forward eagerly to Valentine’s Day each year, or do you dread this February 14^th holiday? Will thoughts of Valentine's Day bring you hearty happiness or heartache? Does the mere mention of Valentine’s Day warm your heart or chill you to the core?

Valentine’s Day Is Vile

(A Limericked Look at a Day Most Mistook)

I snort at chaos with a seal,

As heart-shaped contents may reveal.

To downturned grin

And much chagrin,

A Valentine packs no ideal.

This moment puts us on the spot,

Selecting greetings oft store-bought.

The good old days

Have gone a-ways,

I pity lovers who’ve forgot –

While counting Valentines I’ve got.

“I can’t make you love me,

If you don’t.

You can’t make your heart feel

Something it won’t.”

Bonnie Raitt

American singer and songwriter

(1949 -   )

Posted for a variety of prompts:

AC (Valentine’s poem/s)

Easy Street Prompts (“underestimated consequence”)

Friday Flash-55 (55 words)

Heads or Tails (“pack”)

Meme Express (Friday Freedom)

Monday Poetry Train (poem/s)

One Single Impression (“chaos”)

Simply Snickers (“select,” “spot” and “snort”)

Sunday Scribblings (“the good old days”)