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June 04, 2004
A Valentine's Day Poem I wrote.
No more the Lupercalion feast, with all its pagan rites.
The goats and dogs their flesh may keep, upon fair Palatine.
To purify with magic, and sacrifice to gods,
Virgil’s ode no more compels this fickle, future mob.
Nor can the edict of Claudius two, by order from his throne,
Compel true love to live its life, forever, all alone.
For faithful priest, this Valentine, tho’ not yet made a saint,
Did not obey that wicked man, and thereby sealed his fate.
Thus in two seventy A.D., his head from body torn,
A jailer’s daughter, the story goes, had blinded eyes reborn.
And for this selfless, noble act, Pope Gelasius, by name,
Decreed, that on the fourteenth day, his honor would remain.
Thus ‘Patron saint of Lovers’ Valentine himself would be
And this was all accomplished in 496 A.D.
But please observe, ye loving ones, the Duke of New Orleans.
Who, while in jail, first sent his wife a valentine received.
Alas we see our tale usurped by Cupid, as his day.
All men forget what history knows, they’re deaf to what she’ll say.
So send your card, your candy too, give lovers a dead plant,
For History true I now have told, and never shall recant.
Carl
(Written Dec. 4, 2003)
Posted by plumberman029 at June 4, 2004 11:25 PM
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Comments
you're quite the romantic.
Posted by: James at June 6, 2004 01:25 AM
BTW that last comment was sarcastic, heh heh
Posted by: James at June 6, 2004 01:26 AM
Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.
Posted by: Lamar Cole at October 25, 2005 04:25 PM