Tag Archives: Valentine's Day

Erotic Dreams of a Wild Sea

By Robin Bates | Published: February 14, 2024

Dickinson’s “Wild Nights” is an astonishing love poem, perfect for Valentine’s Day.

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A Love Poem Flavored with Salt

By Robin Bates | Published: February 14, 2022

Clifton’s “salt” works as a Valentine’s Day poem, but not a normal one.

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Erotic Love, a Window into God

By Robin Bates | Published: February 13, 2021

Some Christian see a clash between sex and love. Dante and Milton found ways to reconcile them.

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Fingering a Gem beyond Counting

By Robin Bates | Published: February 13, 2020

We can thank imagist poet Amy Lowell for today’s sensuous Valentine’s Day poem.

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Open the Love Window and Kiss the Moon

By Robin Bates | Published: February 13, 2019

Thursday – Valentine’s Day Kathy Hamman, a dear family friend, alerted my mother and me to this wonderful Rumi poem for Valentine’s Day. (My mother ran it in her Sewanee Messenger poetry column.) I have used other poems suggested by Kathy in the past, but this is particularly meaningful because Kathy is currently fighting late stage cancer. That her […]

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Relationship Advice from Blake

By Robin Bates | Published: February 14, 2014

Blake’s “Clod and the Pebble” warn us to steer between two opposite dangers in our relationships.

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A Delicious Poem for Your True Love

By Robin Bates | Published: February 14, 2011

My wife was sitting at a stoplight a few years ago when she heard a National Public Radio story about a fifth taste, the other four being sweet, sour, bitter and salty.  Often we know it by the name given it by the Japanese, who first identified it early in the 20th century, although we […]

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Rise Up, My Fair One, and Come Away

By Robin Bates | Published: February 13, 2011

Spiritual Sunday St. Valentine, who has evolved into the patron saint of lovers, was beheaded by the Romans for (among other things) marrying Christian couples.  As Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, I turn to that most erotic of books in the Bible, Song of Songs (also know as Song of Solomon).Some, unnerved by its unbridled sensuality, have […]

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