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Day 15 #Loveuary ❤ – Affection

15 Feb 2017 28 Comments

by Ritu in #loveuary, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #loveuary, Affection, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, love

Love is a feeling that comes in many strengths.

The deep passion you feel for your other half.

The ‘I’d die for you’ love you feel for your children.

The all encompassing love you feel for your pet.

The ‘crush’ love you feel for that celebrity…

Affectionate love is that kind of feeling that just makes you go ‘Awwww!’

When you think something or someone is cute. Like a baby, or a child. It isn’t quite as strong as love, per se, but affection is definitely a feeling in itself, that manifests itself into a type of love. A type of tenderness, fondness…

When I look at you
I feel a strong affection
And want to hug you!

Ritu 2017

Remember, feel free to take part in #Loveuary! Just ping back to the daily post, as in this one for today! And if you are at a loss for a prompt, then visit my rules post here for a list of prompt suggestions!

Day 14 #Loveuary ❤ – Valentine

14 Feb 2017 69 Comments

by Ritu in #loveuary, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #loveuary, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, love, poem, Valentines Day

Valentine’s Day is here. The reason this month has got all red, pink and fluffy! We’ve been bombarded with adverts, cards and flowers, deals on hotels and fancy meals, for the best part of two months at least, and now it’s here.

But hasn’t it all got far too commercialised?

It’s a great idea, to have a day to show your love, but that shouldn’t be the only day. If you love someone, you love them everyday, yet the businesses out there have cottoned on to the fact that there is huge money to be made out of days like today. If the other half doesn’t get a card, the Missus will be miffed, that sort of thing!

I, for one, never lose an opportunity to tell him that I love him. Every day. Today, for me is just an extra reason to shower him with a little extra love. But along with him, the love is showered on all my family and friends.

It can’t be a bad thing to spread love, can it? If only for a day, let there be love around the world. ❤

My Valentine

Today’s the day to profess my love
To coo to you, my turtle dove
The day I say how much I care
How to be with you I’d go anywhere

To shower you with kisses and hugs
Cuddly toys and romantic mugs
A bunch of roses, must be red
And propose that I think we should wed

But why today on St Valentine,
When every day I want you to be mine?
Everyday you change my life
For not one day are we husband and wife

Know my love will never end
Even when you drive me round the bend
A chance to celebrate, it’s true
The very fact that I love you

Ritu 2017

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #136 Eye&Fade/ #Loveuary 13.1

13 Feb 2017 33 Comments

by Ritu in #loveuary, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #loveuary, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Eyes & Fade, tanka

Ron’s weekly haiku challenge this week…

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Image 2016

The prompt words are…

Eye & Fade

A tanka today…a little #loveuary added too!

Image from Pixabay

Though my sight may fade
Your beauty is imprinted
Forever inside
These eyes may see you daily
This heart remembers your soul

Ritu 2017

Day 12 #Loveuary❤ – Marriage

12 Feb 2017 46 Comments

by Ritu in Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #loveuary, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Marriage, poem, Thoughts

Marriage to me is so important. Seeing my parents, and in-laws, and my grandparents too, I grew up wanting a marriage as strong and secure as that.

In their days, marriage, in the Eastern cultures, came before love. You were matched according to family and compatibility. As a girl, you were trained up in the arts of homemaking, and cooking, in the hope that these skills would do you well in our marriage.

In my time, and now, it is more likely that a couple fall in love first, as with their Western counterparts. Careers and life experiences come way before the rest, and often you are left to bumble along, learning how to be a ‘wife’ in the traditional sense, on the job!

This little poem is about my experience. We met, we went out with each other, we fell in love, we married. And our love grows with each day that passes.

The day I smiled at you
Changed my whole life
Led me down a path
Where I became your wife

Clandestine dates
In secret locations
Midnight passing in
Whispered conversations

Changed in a flash
Once those vows we took
Enjoying homemaking
And learning how to cook

Supporting each other
A true marriage of souls
At one time feeling incomplete
Now we do feel whole

Ritu 2017

Day 11 #Loveuary❤ -Passion

11 Feb 2017 31 Comments

by Ritu in #loveuary, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #loveuary, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Limerick, Passion, Quote

“Passion can come without love, it’s true, but true passion is only felt with the one you love.” – Ritu

And a little limerick, to lighten the mood!

There once was a girl filled with passion
For everything very high fashion
Silk stockings she bought
Her mother was fraught
For she’d used their very last ration!

Ritu 2017