Lord Valentine's Heart

To thee, my love, I send a well worn heart though wrapped in crimson satin and unbeating I fill it with sweet meats and love's entreating's Oh please return, we've been too long apart. I brood at break of dawn and setting sun behind the velvet cloth of our bower. I stare from arched turrets in our tower and strain to hear the homeward hoof beats start. Hear me now return, I'm left with but a part of a life not worth living without my dove. Your Valentine is but a token love, for needs be, I've much more to impart. To thee, my better half, my sweetest bride will you return to me, will you homeward ride. *A Canzone is a pre-curser to the sonnet and has 10-11 mixed metered lines, I have used Dante's end rhyme pattern [abbcdeeccffcgg] Contest: Your Best Rhyme Poet: Debbie Guzzi