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2014 Poetry Contest Winner for Over 30 Years of Marriage

Congratulations to – Patty O’Hara of Aptos, CA

Patty’s prize is dinner for two at Severino’s – Seacliff Inn in Aptos

VALENTINES DAY 1974

On this Valentine’s Day with romance in my heart

I have visions of hiding away.

We might lie side by side on some tropical beach

And be just you and me for a day.

But you’ve gone off to work, as I know you must do

And the children are begging my time

But you called up to say that you love me and so…

I am sitting here writing this rhyme.

 

Though the plumber just left and the house is a wreck

And the cake that I baked just for you


Sits unfrosted as yet on the top of the stove…

All my visions of love have come true.

 

VALENTINE’S DAY 2014

Now our love is still strong though our children are grown

And the grandchildren take up our time.

I remember us then…I remember us when

I am sitting here writing this rhyme.

Sure the times and the tides brought us close in the days

When our journey had hardly begun.

But we’ve weathered life’s storms through the dark and unknown

And my love, you are still number one!

– Patty O’Hara –

 

For my husband for 48 years of love

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