One Night Stanzas

Happy Valentine’s Day, all!

Here are some sweet and sentimental stuffs to check out: Poster poems: Love // Oh the horror … the horror! // Specially-made Valentine & anti-Valentine tattoo flash // I love you more than… // Be single & happy today! & start hunting out next year’s Valentine!

OK, to business! Your Valentine’s haikus were all really cool, I had a good chuckle reading them all! There were loads of great ones, but the winners, by a mere whisker, were Kate Sloan and Morganne Couch:

(don’t worry, i don’t have herpes.) — Morganne

I just loved the sassiness of these haikus! Congratulations girls! Drop me a line to claire@onenightstanzas.com with your postal address!

OK, here are the best of the rest!

so tearfully dropped
on the Underground platform -
a single red rose — Juliet

Glitter of diamond?
Heady scent of token rose?
Or more dirty socks? — Beverley

Q-tips, empties, bras…
Life approaches normalcy.
I still love your laugh. — Matt R

Trashed at night again
Your heart bleeding, passenger
Of my haunted thoughts — Ann

Cold breath comes clouded
The old wooden bench soon warms
Our knitted gloves held — Col

Paper Valentines,
Modest cards for everyone-
Where did those years go? — Caroline

both sick in bed
holding hands and tissues
this is love — Trevor

We made a snowman
sitting on a garden chair:
I’m sure he loved us. — Doran K

my favorites are
your lips, red rust bleeding, dark
bruises or pink like

you can have the world
give me you on your damn knees
so naked, so proud — Jack

I no longer own
myself. Since we met I’m yours -
life’s started again. — Alistair

Valentine’s Day
Are you nobody, too?
Let’s read Dickinson

Candy heart says
Be mine
You don’t eat it — Will

Thanks for all your submissions, guys… they were awesome. Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours!

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