It’s Valentine’s Day. I went back through the blog archives and discovered that I sometimes don’t post anything on this day or sometimes post something off the subject of this day. One year, it was baseball. Well, I do love the game so maybe it was a Valentine of sorts.
I thought I would post something this year, a poem that I posted several years ago. It’s an anonymous verse from India that strikes just the right chord of love and devotion for me without turning to pablum.
Although I Conquer All the Earth
Although I conquer all the earth,
Yet for me there is only one city.
In that city there is for me only one house;
And in that house, one room only;
And in that room, a bed.
And one woman sleeps there,
The shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom.
—Anonymous, Ancient India
Also, below is a song from Peter Case, Two Angels, an elegantly simple song that is a favorite of mine and also on subject for the day. Surprisingly, it is a fairly little known song though I understand it was used on an episode of True Blood. If that doesn’t scream romance, I don’t know what does.
The painting above is an oil on panel, 10″ by 58″, that I did back in 2001. I cannot find or recall its title at the moment but am calling it Two Angels for today.
Redtree Times 