Roses are Red...

Thanks, sweetie.

Please don't forget to pick onion, orange juice and toilet paper on your way home, ok?

xxx ooo

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Colombians don't celebrate Valentine's day, lucky on both fronts 😉

Quite a lot of Indonesians do something to mark Valentine's Day - encouraged by retailers and advertisers - but there are many (Muslims) who do not like 'celebrating' a day named after Christian saint. Such objections are normally something akin to the objections among many Christians about how trashy and secular Christmas has become, but in other somewhat rarer cases the objection is quite staunch and rooted in religious ideology ~ wherein... a pious Muslim has no business getting involved in commercialised, pseudo-Christian froth, it's wrong to see such contamination as 'harmless' etc. etc.

Poem in Prose

This poem is for my wife.
I have made it plainly and honestly:
The mark is on it
Like the burl on the knife.

I have not made it for praise.
She has no more need for praise
Than summer has
Or the bright days.

In all that becomes a woman
Her words and her ways are beautiful:
Love's lovely duty,
the well-swept room.

Wherever she is there is sun
And time and a sweet air:
Peace is there,
Work done.

There are always curtains and flowers
And candles and baked bread
And a cloth spread
And a clean house.

Her voice when she sings is a voice
At dawn by a freshening spring
Where the wave leaps in the wind
And rejoices.

Wherever she is it is now.
It is here where the apples are:
Here in the stars,
In the quick hour.

The greatest and richest good,
My own life to live in,
This she has given me --

If giver could.

By Archibald MacLeish
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Here's a lovely poem apropos of Valentine's Day February 14, 2016.

The post that was quoted here has been removed

Roses are reddish
Violets are blueish
If it wasn't for Jesus
We'd all be Jewish