Greetings, Poetry Lovers!
How did it get to be February so fast?!
Tonight for Beaufort's "First Friday" celebration, with shops and galleries and such open late and offering wine and goodies, the theme is "Luv-in Downtown." So, I have Valentines on my mind!
Most of you know I'm hopelessly addicted to antique maps, manuscripts, and ephemera. I've enjoyed conjuring up some cards for the occasion incorporating collaged images I've reproduced from paper treasures I've collected. The bottom card features a lacy background image from a Victorian card, topped with a specially cropped image of our Lowcountry portion of a South Carolina map from a 1909 atlas. The top card features re-combined elements from some Victorian Valentines, with the warm notion,
May true
friends be
around you
- not really a poem, but a lovely sentiment.
Speaking of sentiment... Oh, those Victorians. The poem inside one of the aforementioned cards went like this:
From me
to you,
in greeting
Affectionate
and true;
To say one heart
is beating
That still
remembers you.
(Gotta love 'em.)
I do get all warm and fuzzy thinking about Poetry Friday friends, must admit - and I loved the poetry postcards which brought January greetings, and some other correspondence with dear PF friends.
And... I confess I love VICTORIA on Masterpiece. Took me a few episodes to get hooked when it first started, but now I'm hopelessy trapped in front of the TV on Sunday nights at 9 p.m., lamenting that the seasons aren't long enough.
Speaking of Valentines, if 'watercolorful' is more your speed, our own Michelle Kogan chimed in last week with a link to some she's made in her Etsy shop, too!
Be sure to visit all the poetry links rounded up for us this week by the marvelous Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference. And, especially you all in the Midwest and Northeast, please stay cozy and safe!