It seems Valentine Day has come too early. 1st January crossed the time too fast, snow and icy days kept us captive inside the home for a long time Beautiful bouquet of roses was delivered by post to my daughter in the morning to remind me the special day .It is a sunny bright morning .
I wrote several articles on Valentine Day I will repost one from them for now .
Broken Heart
Starting from the youth to the end of life,
All thirsty hearts wait to be pierced
With some sugarcoated arrow in the heart .
Life has no charm without romance;
It is better to be wounded and ooze,
Rather than a barren life to chose.
Oozing heart caused by failure love
Inscribes in blood long-lasting
love - lyric and melodious music
That lingers long to inspire sensitive spirit.
An arrow piercing the the red heart
Symbolizes the vibrant juvenile love
But random display of Valentines' cards
Makes the image funny, naive and ridiculous!
But how heart can be broken ?
Is it of glass, metal, or plastic?
It is a lump: soft and sensitive .
Is the 'broken heart' an utter literary fallacy?
Or a metaphor of intense emotion,
Popularly known as depression.
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The theme of the poem focuses on the show-off or the plight of 'True' love: which is gasping under the piles of displaying cards; it prompted me to compose this poem .
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Valentine's Day: 'Commercialised celebration of love'
Valentine’s day: Commercialised celebration of love
Manhattan,NY
Feb 16, 2018
I was coming to home from doctor’s clinic, Columbus Circle. It was an enough cold evening. But lots of crowd was flowing on the road As soon as I saw a joyful young couple with red bouquet of flowers , I remembered “it is Valentine’s Day!’ Among the crowd I saw only two or three young couples with hand-in-hand and boquete of flowers .Most were found in groups. My eyes caught hold few male couples ,both young and middle-aged male couples clutching each others’ hands warmly .I twitted them silently ‘are you happy and “gay’! ………
So in this megacity high-tech super digital land of face book and twitter ,the warmth of romance in valentine’s Day brews much flavor among the group or clan in place of clan-destine romance of love between two hearts in the traditional world: a game of change !
But who was this St. Valentine and how his name was associated with love and romance? I came to learn, mostly from internet and books that this very old tradition originated from a Roman festival called “Lupercalia’ in 3rd or 5th century AD;. Its history is shrouded in mystery. There are different legends spanned around it.
Some story says Roman emperor Claudius11banned all marriages and engagements in Rome. Because he believed that love and bondage of family life discouraged the Roman men to serve in the Army.
St valentine defied it. Emperor Claudius11 executed two men both named Valentine on Feb14th of different years in the 3rd century AD. Their martyrdom was duly honoured by the catholic Church with the celebration of St Valentine’s Day.
Isn’t it an irony that modern ‘day of love’ is based on the unjustified martyrdom(!)(or murder,who knows) of someone for courage and honesty?...
It seems, less we know the history, more we will be happy.
Other story is more brutal. In the festival of Lupercalia men would sacrifice a goat and a dog. Then the young women who stood naked in a line would be whipped by those drunken men with the hides of the sacrificed animals just slain. It was believed that this ‘ritual’ would make them fertile. It also included a match-making lottery{s-o- ridiculous!} in which young men drew the names of women from a jar.
And they will be coupled up accordingly to fertile the the field for future battle of brutality! The Roman introduced this festival with the purpose to expel Pegan rituals. Later on the Christians covered up the cruelty by patching 'colour of love' upon it. The literary works of Chaucer, Shakespeare romanticized valentine Day in their work and it flourished reputation throughout Europe as significant cultural, religious and ‘commercial celebration of love’.
Today valentine’s Day contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman traditions.
Anyway, festival means business and Valentine’s Day is a big business :bumper sale of cards, balloons, flowers, food, movies and what not(sale of marital loyality in'Tinder' love or in 'Just for lunch' for introductory love--- where the market has no sunset throughout the year instead of a single fixed day)! It has become almost global festival in uprising countries
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