Valentine’s Mashup

Posted on 2024-02-14 by Bartholomew Barker

How do I love her? Let me count the ways.
She is like a red, red rose,
walking in beauty, like the night.
Her love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall.

And all that’s best of dark and bright,
that’s newly sprung in June,
I love to the depth and breadth and height
’til all the seas go dry
and rocks melt with the sun.

Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
it is most mad and moonly.
While the sands of life shall run,
I shall but love her better after death.

(Happy Valentine’s Day, readers! This is a mashup of four of my favorite love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese 43, She Walks in Beauty, A Red, Red Rose and love is more thicker than forget.)

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
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18 Responses to Valentine’s Mashup

  1. klekie's avatar Kate says:
    2024-02-14 at 22:58

    Absolutely beautiful, Bartholomew 🌹
    I completely forgot it was Valentine’s Day until late in the afternoon, so I didn’t get an appropriate poem composed to post. Maybe next year.

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  4. luisa zambrotta's avatar luisa zambrotta says:
    2024-02-15 at 05:22

    Such a wonderful mix!!!!

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  5. Cheryl Batavia's avatar Cheryl, Gulf Coast Poet says:
    2024-02-17 at 11:56

    Photo and poem are both provocative and delightful! <3 Hope your valentine’s Day was delightful too!

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  6. thelongview's avatar thelongview says:
    2024-02-17 at 19:47

    Nice mashup! I don’t know the forget and recall one, but your poem kept ringing bells in an interesting way.

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  8. Sunra Rainz's avatar Sunra Rainz says:
    2024-03-04 at 13:47

    Great cento! :-)

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