Two Hearts

Valentine’s Day is ripe (too ripe?) for poetry, and this Robert Browning poem is as sexy as they get, and totally worth the eye rolling one may get for pulling out verse on the day of St. Valentine. By the way, those two silver hearts in the picture were made for me and Susan and are now somewhere in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Nosara.

Cheers, and Happy Valentines Day!
— John

Meeting At Night

The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand.

Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!

Robert Browning

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