Image borrowed from Bing1.
Happy Valentine's Day--Acknowledge your heart. Tell it thank you. Consider its service to you, how it circulates the blood, carries oxygen and love through your body. It is a person. It responds to your thoughts. Try it; you'll see (or hear or feel...). And while you're at it, thank the hearts of those you love: lover, partner (or the one you are imagining!), family members, even the heart of the Earth, the heart of the Sky.
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Happy Valentine's Day--
Acknowledge your heart.
Tell it thank you.
Consider its service to you,
how it circulates the blood,
carries oxygen and love through your body.
It is a person.
It responds to your thoughts.
Try it; you'll see (or hear or feel...).
And while you're at it,
thank the hearts of those you love:
lover, partner (or the one you are imagining!),
family members, even
the heart of the Earth,
the heart of the Sky.
Joy Harjo
Posted over on her site Poetic Adventures in the Last World Blog
1. Joy's poetic prose.
2. Line breaks by Glenn Buttkus
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