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Judged January 5th, 2025

“Though February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises.”
- Charmaine J. Forde

Feeling Fine in February

February is a love song 
composed on the mood of spring 
in the tempo of a Christmas waltz, 
modulating to estival embraces— 
recapitulating vernal feelings 
when autumn falls. 

February is a pulsing heartbeat, 
a twinkling eye, 
a bold susurration, 
here and gone in twenty-eight days— 
an interrupted cadence. 
The whole world would be stoned 
should Cupid's quivers march along. 

February is a bouquet of roses, 
a box of chocolates; 
goblets of a bubbly cherry wine, 
threads of scarlet satin suited for ballroom romances; 
two salmon swimming upstream undaunted 
to birth the next generation.
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