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Abe
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since 2003-05-28

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0 posted 2011-02-14 10:06 AM

Where?

Where can I keep my heart
When my Valentine is gone?
Without candy and flowers
Or the words to our love song.

When there is no warm touch
Pressed, softly upon my skin
When there are no feelings
When, I try to love again.

Where can I keep my heart?
I guess, it will stay with you
Because, I’ve loved you all these years
And, there’s not much else, I can do!

So, I’ll just leave it in your care
Because I know, you’ll treat it well
It’s safe there, in your hands
Until we find, what time will tell.

Del “Abe” Jones
2.14.2011

Hearts And Flowers

A day for hearts and flowers
The time to say you care
A chance to tell your loved ones
You're glad that they are there.

But!, wonder why we wait
Until, this certain day
To do those "special" things
And, say those things we say?

Why not? Tell mate or lover
Each day, the whole year through
"Valentine, I'm glad you're mine
And, I sure do love you".

Del “Abe” Jones
2-13-1998

Saint Valentine’s Day

As early as the Fourth, B.C.
Back in the Roman Nation
A boy was assigned a girl
For a one year duration.

Eight hundred years, a practice
Till church fathers sought its end
They found the answer in Valentine
Who was martyred at his life’s end.

Some two hundred years before
An edict by Claudius-II
Forbade marriage in the Empire
(Not too smart a thing to do!)

There were forces from within
And threats from lands all about
The soldier’s wives and families
He thought, they could do without.

He wanted all his Armies
To have but one thing on their mind
Hoped that one Love, of Country
Would make them a special kind.

Valentine, a church bishop
Saw young Lovers in their pain
He met them in a secret place
Brought matrimony back again.

He joined them in the sacrament
Helped them make their marriage vow
Going against the Emperor’s wishes
More than his laws would allow.

He learned of this “friend of lovers”
And had him placed under arrest
Tried to convert him to the Roman Gods
But Valentine withstood that test.

He even tried to turn the tables
Show Claudius the Christian way
Knowing he would be executed
For that was the law of the day.

While Valentine awaited his fate
He made friends with his jailor
Who had a daughter who was blind
Who searched for a miraculous cure.

Well, Valentine restored her sight
Through his faith he claimed, divine
Wrote a last farewell note to her
And signed it, “From Your Valentine.”

February twenty-four, Two Seventy
He was executed for his “crime”
And thus became a Patron Saint
To be remembered for all time.

There was an annual festival
Young Romans wrote greetings of Love
To young ladies they longed to court
Which Valentine oversaw from above.

The cards were named after him
The Fourteenth chosen as the date
When those messages were passed around
To try to change the Lover’s fate.

One of the earliest cards known sent
Was by a Duke in Fourteen-Fifteen
Preserved in the British Museum
Where, still today it can be seen.

And to this day, around the World
We still send those cards to Lovers
Asking, “Valentine, will you be mine?”
And sometimes, we even ask some others.

Del “Abe” Jones
© February 3, 2006

Heart of Hearts

I just want you to know
On this Valentines' Day
How much you mean to me
And what my heart has to say.

Although I can't spend the time
That I would like with you
What little we do share
Makes me love you more, it's true.

I appreciate the moments
When you make my heart soar
Like every time I see you
As you walk in the door.

I know I can't expect you
To feel the same as I
But my hope won't go away
And that's why I have to try.

You're like no other "LADY"
That I have ever known
And I can't help my feelings
Or keep them from being shown.

I wouldn't do it if I could
Because in my heart of hearts
I know it must be faith and trust
Before the real love starts.

Please believe me when I tell you
I will never do you wrong
And if you would let me in
You'd find a love true and strong.

Maybe I'm just dreaming
And maybe I'm a fool
But I know that love is
The worlds' greatest tool.

So few learn how to use it
Don't see where it ends and starts
But if you let me I will show you
There in your heart of hearts.

Del “Abe” Jones
90s

Will You Please Be My Valentine?

Remember when a Valentine
Was just a name that you just drew
And you could give that paper heart
To someone you barely knew.

Or you maybe gave your heart
To everybody in your class
Drawn and cut, with your words
That were so much fun to pass.

And too, those little candy hearts
That you used to pass around
Searching colors and the words
Until that perfect one was found.

And remember that special one
Who made your heart skip a beat
Who you gave that special card
Who gave your heart a special treat.

And remember how easy it was
To tell a classmate, “I love you!”
Not just three meaningless words
Cause everyone knew they were true.

Oh, for those days of innocence
When everything seemed to be just fine
And you weren’t afraid to ask aloud,
“Will you please be my Valentine?”

Del “Abe” Jones
2-13-2005

Still Racin’

Please tell me, oh heart of mine
Where did you hide my Valentine
Where did the loving feelings go
That used to make, your beat race so.

Where do I go to find that touch
Of a warm hand, that meant so much
A look in eyes, without a word
That said those three, I once heard.

‘Guess, I should be, heart of mine
Glad, we once had a Valentine
And have those memories we know
That still make, your beat race so.

Del “Abe” Jones

Long Distance Valentine

You are my Valentine.
Accept the love I give.
A love to last forever
As long as we shall live.

I need your love in return;
Without it, emptiness.
The greatest treasure on this Earth
That we can possess.

I think of you when I'm awake
Dream of you when I sleep;
The thoughts can make me smile,
The dreams can make me weep.

Though we're apart, so many miles,
My love is still with you;
For you are a major part of
Every single thing I do.

So I'll just go on searching,
Trying to find the way
To get you to return to me
To make each a "Valentine's Day".

Del “Abe” Jones
80s

Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. copyright 1984

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nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2011-02-14 05:44 PM

"Will You Please Be My Valentine?

Remember when a Valentine
Was just a name that you just drew
And you could give that paper heart
To someone you barely knew.

Or you maybe gave your heart
To everybody in your class
Drawn and cut, with your words
That were so much fun to pass.

And too, those little candy hearts
That you used to pass around
Searching colors and the words
Until that perfect one was found.

And remember that special one
Who made your heart skip a beat
Who you gave that special card
Who gave your heart a special treat.

And remember how easy it was
To tell a classmate, “I love you!”
Not just three meaningless words
Cause everyone knew they were true.

Oh, for those days of innocence
When everything seemed to be just fine
And you weren’t afraid to ask aloud,
“Will you please be my Valentine?”
Especially loved that one~~

M

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

2 posted 2011-02-18 06:56 PM

You did good, each one of these is lovely, and holds so much meaning.

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