 Here are the winners in the
2008 WCLV Valentine's
Day Love Poem contest. Congratulations to them
and thanks to all 150
listeners who submitted
entries.
WCLV'S VALENTINE'S DAY LOVE POEM CONTEST IS PRESENTED BY:
The Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland, creating memorable moments…it’s their pleasure.
Light of Hearts Villa, a senior residential community in Bedford, where you’ll feel at home. Call Barb Hamrell today at 440-232-1991.
Malley’s Chocolates…the gift everyone can share. Ask for Malley’s chocolate.
Larchmere Oriental Rugs, Larchmere Oriental Rugs where you can see the history of woven art at their new store 12812 Larchmere Boulevard.
Rickey C. Tanno Jewelers, in the HuntingtonBuilding,
downtown – Your official Rolex dealer
Fairview, Lakewood and Lutheran Hospitals … Cleveland Clinic Hospitals
FIRST PRIZE
Tonia Kalouria
Lorain
A romantic weekend for two at Cleveland’s Ritz-Carlton, with a bottle of chilled champagne, gourmet truffles, and breakfast for two. Gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
ENDURING LOVE
Darling,
I love you
from the length, breadth and depth
of my
arrhythmic, pace-maker charged,
ACE-inhibited, Beta-blocked,
Prolapsed, murmuring, valve-replaced,
catheterized, quad-bypassed, multi-stented,
functionally stunted,
enlarged, congestively failing,
anginally stressed heart.
You are my nitro.
SECOND PRIZE
Joseph Psarto
Westlake
A handwoven kilim handbag from Larchmere Oriental Rugs; gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
YEATS’ PIE
William Butler Yeats
placed on his table two plates,
a slice of pie on each,
no cherry, not apple, but peach.
One plate was for Olivia now,
the other for Maude by and by.
But Olivia walked away and away
with a salty tear in her eye.
For Yeats was a dim-witted lover,
his heart in sad disarray.
He should have kept them apart,
one plate for night, the other for day.
THIRD PRIZE
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Fairlawn
Waterford Crystal Rosebud Vase from Ricky C. Tanno Jewelers; gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
SHAKESPEARIAN VALENTINE
To be girl friend or be wife
That is the question.
Whether ‘tis nobler to receive flowers
Or to take arms against a sea of laundry?
FOURTH PRIZE
Jean Isabel
Hudson
Gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
WRITING ABOUT WRITING ABOUT LOVE
If everyday were Tuesday
(For that’s the day we met)
I’d write in spangled phrases
You never could forget.
If everyday were Tuesday,
Recycling through the week,
Discarding all my verbiage:
Each line would be unique.
If everyday were Tuesday
(The day you came my way)
The sparks of all my words would
Incinerate cliché.
FIFTH PRIZE
Robert Mayerovitch
Berea
Gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
A VALENTINE SONNET FOR MY WIFE LAURA
A rosy garland crowning my heart’s Queen -
A goblet filled to brim with rubied wine -
A clarion proclamation – Music’s sign -
These Valentines rejoice with passion keen.
Once more, my love, this day has come to pass,
Once more a time to celebrate anew,
Once more a chance for toasting, just we two,
With song, with picnicked feast, with crystal glass.
It’s right that with each quickly passing year,
It’s fine that with each celebration fleet,
It’s good that with each twinge of life’s retreat,
Still love finds laughter during each brief tear.
So dear belov’d, my wish for you is this:
That each new year come welcome as a kiss.
SIXTH PRIZE
Peter Manos
Shaker Heights
Gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
LETHE WEAPONS
Bourbon for your smile…
Wine eyes, gin figure, rum voice…
What else to forget?
SEVENTH PRIZE
Carol Clary
Strongsville
Gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
MY FUNNY VALENTIN E
Your nose is stubby,
Your body chubby,
Your feet are too big, and your butt’s too tubby.
Your laugh’s like a shriek,
Your muscles are weak.
Your eyes are myopic, and you’re kind of a geek.
Some nights you snore.
You’re sometimes a bore.
You leave the seat up, ‘till you make me real sore.
But I love you babe!
You’re all that I crave.
To me you’re so cute, I’ll be your love slave.
EIGHTH PRIZE
e. kaank
Cleveland
Gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
ORIGAMI
Because it’s such beautiful paper, love
- hand-pulled, textured with long fibers that make a pattern in the light -
we debated long before we made that first reluctant crease.
The next folds came easily, quick and confident,
then more involved with joy in the complexities.
Sometimes the edges refuse to meet, seams unfurl, corners buckle
- a difficult piece that won’t come true -
then I push it away, bored,
or you toss it, crumpled across the room
where it rolls under the sofa.
But we always fish it out again
blow off the dust and continue to fold
because it’s such beautiful paper, love.
NINTH PRIZE
Brenda Owens
Cleveland
Gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
PASSAGE
Walking with the dogs
In frosty mist,
And the pale rising light
Of a February morn
Stop.
Breathe the silence and exhale the breath
Curling out from parted lips, like milk in tea
A jet-trail of softly spoken promises
This is where I always find you
And let you be.
TENTH PRIZE
Joette McDonald
Vermilion
Gift certificate from Malley’s Chocolates; Telarc’s Breathe for Lovers CD
SEPARATION
“He’s gone to sing in the choir,”
she said,
“I know it’s much better this way,”
but her eyes were pools of loneliness,
You can see she’s beginning to shrivel,
to shrink.
It’s too hard to accompany his song,
you see:
her piano is here,
and he’s gone
to sing in the choir.
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