Cupid's Call to Arms
The mental scars of your last Valentine’s Day debacle have barely healed when you have to dodge an incoming arrow from Cupid, note affixed, “Don’t botch it this year.” (Cheeky little cherub, he is.)
Apparently, the Post-it love note, air fern and home-delivery pizza impressed neither your sweetheart nor the Messenger of Love. Forget last year; it’s a clean slate and time to show your beloved that beneath that unflappable demeanor beats the heart of a smoldering romantic. (Work with me here.)
I propose a relatively simple solution, write a poem. For instance:
Your eyes are so dreamy,
Your embrace, just plain steamy.
Promise that you’ll never leave me.
Don’t worry, not everyone can come up with such lyrical prose right out of the starting gate or perhaps ever, but there is another option: proven poets on demand.
Yep, here’s a site that can have your sweetheart swooning and Cupid upstaged. Poets.org brings the words of a poet to the ear of your beloved. Search for poems by author or subject. Think of it as your online Cyrano putting words into your mouth. May I suggest Elizabeth Barrett Browning to get the embers glowing?
And should words escape you, the site’s listening booth provides audio clips of poems and samples from the Academy's Poetry Audio Archive. In this case, you may even consider lip synching to your love. I believe one's personal humiliation, is stark proof of their true devotion. It has worked for me.
Oh wait I should probably tie this into travel…hmm. Oh, here’s another tip: whenever you travel, bring a little something home to your sweetie pie. Physical distance may have separated you both, but upon your return unwrap a little treasure that holds a story about how you were thinking of them. (It is important to say this with a straight face.)
Alright my little online romantics, it’s your turn. What do you do that do that spells L-O-V-E on Valentine’s Day or any day?