Greetings Valentines!

It is the much touted romantic day of days, Valentine’s Day. We have exchanged the traditional cards and greetings with kisses.

I made pancakes this morning to sweeten the day. Baby-back ribs are planned for dinner, with sweet potatoes, baby spinach salad, and Key Lime pie for dessert. We actually travel to South Florida for the ribs, to Torchio’s in Boynton Beach. They have the best meat and have true baby- back ribs. This is not a gourmet feast like Sam, From My Carolina Kitchen, would make (check out her blog!); but, it’s simple and tasty.

Saint Valentine’s Day, per Wickipedia, “is annually held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius in AD 496. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by gifts,cards, etc. The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. “

Courtly love sounds so romantic, doesn’t it? I could enjoy being courted with gifts and flowers! Oh, and how about courting me with some house cleaning, or with cooking or doing the laundry? Oh romance, how you have changed! Although taking me shopping with no limits would work! Hmmm. . .

Here are some quotes for you love birds!

Soul meets soul on lover’s lips.

~ by Percy Blythe Shelly ~

I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.

~ by William Shakespeare ~

One word frees us Of all the weight and pain in life, That word is Love

~ by Socrates ~

Paradise is always where love dwells.

~ by Jean Paul F. Richter ~

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.

~by Unknown

~ Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

~ by Germaine De Stael ~

Lastly, here is a poem from an unpublished love anthology that I wrote for my husband, called As Souls Meld:

DÉJÀ VU

I believe
We have met before
Another time, another life
It is the only explanation
That explains our closeness
And our chemistry together

I touch you
And it feels as natural
As breathing in and out
My skin knows yours
Intimately
Our scents mingle as one

I cannot imagine
Life without you
It would be like
An empty void
Lacking all familiar

I would strain
To hear your laughter,
Your music, your voice
My eyes would search
For signs of you

But we would leave
This world
Only to be reborn
And meet again
My love-
Deja Vu