11 Feb Poets’ Corner: Daiva for Valentine’s Day!
Marketing guru Scott Haltzmann wrote a book entitled “Eight Ways to Win Your Wife’s Heart Forever.” When it was published way back in 2006, woman gave it as a gift to their hubbies on Valentine’s Day. Among the helpful hints for happy living together: a man should tell his wife he adores her. (Often.) Share in the child care. (Unless he is the only child in the house.) Listen without judging. (Or stuff cotton in your ears and nod your agreement.) Say “I understand” when she expresses her emotions. (You can cross your fingers behind your back.)
Or do as our friend and colleague Daiva Chesonis did: write a lovely, heartfelt (pun intended) poem that pays homage to your beloved. Go ahead. Open your pump and mind and give it a try. If that does not work, go back to saying “I understand” – and buy her a major piece of jewelry or him a ticket to a sporting event.
Daiva Chesonis, former owner of Telluride’s Between the Covers Bookstore and Poet Laureate of San Miguel County.
Take My Heart for a Walk
Take my heart for a walk
Feed it biscuits and gravy
Save it a seat at the bar
Wipe its brow when it fevers
Stock its shelves with books of poems
The pantry with late night munchies
Shovel its walk when snow gets thick
Kick its trash to the curb
Hold its hand at Zombie flicks
Fill the adverb slots in MadLibs
Yell “Here!” when laryngitis strikes
Whisper “Your zipper’s down”
Regrow its skin when life rubs it raw
Use thrift store thread to fix small tears
Fluff its pillows and dust its tchotchkes
Spend millions of seconds staring at its eyelashes
Wax on, wax off when its shine is dulled
Mend its roof with a tar of hope
Take my heart for a walk
and let it talk talk talk.
Just let it talk.
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