My Valentina
...Darling eyes I can't resist
Soft hands I caress and miss
Your heart that sings I sire
Pillows you throw slings like lyre...
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Categories:
valentina, cute love,
Form: Chastushka
The Sixties
...The flower children were in full swing, selling love, less woe.
I was not old enough for Woodstock, but wanted to go.
Hip hugger bell bottoms with navels peeking were the rage.
Boys were sent to V...
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Categories:
valentina, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
A Love Letter From Nowhere
...For Valentina, she was just another person in a nameless town.
In ennui of the busy streets? of the city of San Francisco, in the midst of all the festivities,
She suddenly stopped, forgotten by th...
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Categories:
valentina, break up, feelings, first
Form: Romanticism
Valentina Was a Transgender Girl
...Valentina was a transgender girl so despised,
her rage grew when spotting a stunning beauty;
she felt envy towards the confident and the bold,
but her anger was steeped in relentless jealousy.
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Categories:
valentina, character, conflict, discrimination, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Pork Pies - a Poem For Paul Callus
...We were going to visit Malta so Paul and I hatched a little plan
I’d bring pork pies over (his grand daughter Valentina is a fan)
Paul would meet us at the airport with his family
Va...
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Categories:
valentina, food, friendship, travel,
Form: Couplet
A Real Maltese Welcome - True Friendship Across the Miles
... We got off the plane in Malta after our flight
Reached the arrivals hall and to our delight...
there to greet us with a hug and a smile
Paul Callus, his wife and his lovely grand daughter...
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Categories:
valentina, friendship, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Santa's Special Delivery: a Collab
...Brutal was the biting wind,
sweeping brown locks of a tiny urchin
side to side, often hiding her eyes.
Oversized slippers she had donned
were lost in deep snow drifts.
She plodded forth bare...
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Categories:
valentina, granddaughter, grandfather, love,
Form: Prose
D-Day In Malta:::Co-Write
...We met in Valletta city on a fine November day
Introductions...hugs and kisses; we got talking straight away.
All agreed to go sight-seeing – architecture , harbour view
Made a stop to buy an ice-...
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Categories:
valentina, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Paul Callus: Ego Sum
...Paul
Husband of Sheila, Father of Kirsty and Paul-Mark,
Grandfather of Valentina, teacher, and friend
Son of Pauline and Nazarene, brother to six siblings:
Joseph – Angela – Carmel – Catherine ...
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Categories:
valentina,
Form: Bio
Twentynet'60s-W
...Venera one
Mission Venus
Yuri Gagarin on Vostok
First man in Space.
Mars One
First woman
Valentina Tereshkova.
In space.
Leonev’s ten-minute walk in space.
An unmanned Soviet Craft Luna Nine...
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Categories:
valentina, science, science fiction,
Form: Verse