The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: To My Valentines

Sunday, February 14, 2010

To My Valentines

Accept this little token.

And may it speak of me;

The spell can ne'er be broken

That binds my soul to thee.

I know no form so graceful.

No face so near divine.

Then haste thee, love, oh! hasten,

And be my valentine.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

~Verse from a nineteenth-century valentine

8 comments:

yoborobo said...: So sweet! Happy Valentine's Day, Audrey! Did you make it back home? xox Pam; February 14, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Flor Larios Art said...: Happy Valentine's Day to you too Audrey. Thank you for always coming to my blog and leaving such nice comments. I really enjoy receiving them.
Have a super day!
Hugs,
Flor; February 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Marlene said...: What a sweet valentine and verse - thank you. Wishing you a wonderful Valentines Day also.; February 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM
Jan said...: I hope you are experiencing a loving Valentines Day, Audrey!; February 14, 2010 at 1:17 PM
readingsully2 said...: Great Valentine, Happy Valentines to you.; February 14, 2010 at 1:21 PM
Amanda said...: Hugs and kisses!! Hope you have a great valentines day!! I'm getting Casey's "famous" brunch for valentines day as we speak!!; February 14, 2010 at 2:15 PM
Anonymous said...: HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO YOU, YOUR MOM, AND YOUR SISTER!!!! RECEIVED PATS CARD!! THANK HER FOR ME. AUDREY, THAT WAS A BEAUTIFUL VERSE YOU CHOSE. HAPPY TO SEE YOU MADE IT HOME SAFE. I MISSED YOUR BLOGS!HUGS AND KISSES--- LINDA; February 14, 2010 at 3:39 PM
Anne Huskey-Lockard said...: Love the cupid pic----especially with the flaming heart!
Hope you had a wonderful day; trying to catch up today...

XXOO!!
Anne; February 15, 2010 at 8:57 AM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.