Ah! Valentine's Day and what's not to love. I remember writing, years and years ago, a Valentine poem for my young students who were finding their way around a clock face. It was inspired, if not blatantly copied, from the little readable candy hearts we all love to chomp. Here it is:
I LOVE YOU AROUND THE CLOCK
One o'clock: I love you.
Two o'clock: I'll be true.
Three o'clock: Love me too?
Four o'clock: Yes I do.
Five o'clock: Here's my heart.
Six o'clock: We'll never part.
Seven o'clock: It's a date.
Eight o'clock: Don't be late!
Nine o'clock: You're divine.
Ten o'clock: You're my sunshine.
Eleven o'clock: O Dear Valentine...
Twelve o'clock: Won't you please be mine?
Perhaps not terribly imaginative, but struck the children as the perfect Valentine for the cards they were making for their parents. I made a classroomful of copies for the kids to paste haphazardly on their pink, red and white lace doilies festooned with beginning attempts at cutting out hearts. Those first Valentines are most endearing with scrawled handwriting that reads I love you in all sorts of invented spellings. I still have those that my own 40 something children produced so many years ago and they still bring a tug to my heartstrings. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
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