A Valentine’s Day Poem by Rizwan Akhtar
The Train ever since that day a memory keeps shivering on a white table sheet with a stain of a cup’s bottom discovered a small wish silence swallowed I nabbed your hands like a desperate commuter though the last train is totally empty symptoms pointed paradoxes kept for the rest of the journey a dream […]
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Monday, February 14, 2022 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, Valentines Day Glasgow
The Carrbridge Rose – Brian Whittingham
A poem about love: THE CARRBRIDGE ROSE The Packhorse Bridge arches its back like a grey stone rainbow over the hard flowing river hurtling past banks of snowy ice. We explore chatting holding hands ever so slight as if young love though we are not. Our pasts ensure we tread warily. Not knowing where these […]
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On the West Highland Line – Linda Jackson
(Image: Alan Mitchell / A Glasgow – Fort William train climbs onto Rannoch Moor – Wikipedia) A poem about the vulnerability of loving First published Dec 2021 in Wanderlust Women, available from www.seahorsepublications.com On the West Highland Line Linda Jackson Lost, my love there standing, Lochaber light and wildness capturing his rush to know everything. […]
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Poetry for Valentine’s Day by Donna Campbell
(Image by Raluca Stoiciu from Pixabay ) Wish you were Here (Paris was built for Lovers) Today I wondered down the banks of the Seine, passed couples chaining love locks inscribed with their name and the date of when they first met before throwing the key into the water so no other could unlock the bond between […]
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Sunday, February 13, 2022 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems, Valentines Day Glasgow
Poetry for Valentine’s Day by Finola Scott
long-distance love through dark your voice slips trouble-thick with exams rent partner too far away in miles and years to kiss to make better too far in years and miles I spin a bright cat’s cradle of words to hold you soothe you but […]
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Saturday, February 12, 2022 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, Valentines Day Glasgow, Writing
Flash Fiction for Valentine’s Day – Leela Soma
Love at First Sight? Smitten, I’ve been hit by the golden tip of Cupid’s arrow. Second date? See you tomorrow, same time, same place? Tom xxx He waited two hours wait. It was midnight, is she going to respond? He tossed and turned in bed. Let him wait a bit, play a little hard to get? […]
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Love Stories by Glasgow Writers. Sticky Love by Pauline Lynch
Sticky Love by Pauline Lynch No denying it, times were rough. Sadie was only seven, with limited life experience, but even she knew times were rough. Last night, someone had knocked on their door asking to borrow dog food. It was late and she was meant to be asleep, but she’d heard the knock, and […]
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Thursday, June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems
Off Balance by Magi Gibson – a poem for Valentines
Off Balance You have knocked me off-balance! I walk like a drunk, tripping Over dogs, falling off kerbs, walking out in front of cars and trucks. This is so physical, this disorientation, this disintegration. A woman is at the door returning a leg I left at the local store. I look in the mirror, […]
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, Valentine's Day in Glasgow 2017, Writing
Love Sticky Lick by Jim Byrne, a love poem
Love sticky lick You, me, sticky toffee pudding Runny honey, salt and pepper Chocolate creams and tea Tart, tacky, treacled fingers Shandy, candy, juice and jelly Sticky licks, ice cream and lemonade…. Fuck. With you and me, everything rhymes. Jim Byrne, February, 2016.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, Writing
Valentine Haiku by Leela Soma
Haiku The gurgling feadan beside us We watch the landskein paint the sky Last kiss shared, she left. Leela Soma, Glasgow Writer
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Monday, February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, Valentines Day Glasgow
A Poem for Valentine’s Day: I’m Counting by Rona Fitzgerald
I’m counting the crocuses are out, purple and yellow, encircled with slender snowdrops, soul lanterns on the Ganges. the sparkle is back in your eye, another spring taking bloom. I’m glad we weathered twenty one. that even when the wolf gnawed my soul, I could see light, feeling the consolation of words I still hear […]
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‘Love’ a story by Maggie Reeve
LOVE She appeared at more or less the same time every morning. It was so regular I wondered if she set her alarm as a reminder to feed the birds. And she always wore one of her colourful hats. I used to watch her through the window as I drank my morning coffee. The […]
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Saturday, October 14, 2017 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems
Past Love in the Museum of Transport – poetry by Ciara MacLaverty
Past Love in the Museum of Transport Where’s Daddy? I say, holding your son in my arms, inhaling the baby scent of his head. You’re up on the steam engine with your other son pointing, waving down at us. You still look good and I can hold your gaze without fear of loss or fear […]
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Monday, February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems, Valentine's Day in Glasgow 2017
A Valentine’s Story: Status Update by James Connarty
Status Update On Saturday it will be her birthday, the day before Valentines. I haven’t bought a card in fifteen years. Where would I send it? I posted a Christmas card through the door at the last address I had for her. It was out in the east end, one of those ones with just […]
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Monday, July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, Writing
Dream Lover Two by Ian Macpherson – a love story for Valentine’s Day
from The Book of Blaise In daylight I can always tell when Blaise is upset. The face gives it away. At 4.32am, however, I have to rely on vocal hints. Sobs. Suppressed sniffles. The rustle of yet another tissue being removed from its box. Often all three in that order. Sob, sniffle, rustle. Sob, sniffle, […]
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Saturday, February 13, 2016 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Writing
One Track by Maggie Graham – a love poem for Valentine’s Day
One Track Through the train window I saw On the platform A handsome guy hitch up his jeans And felt a jolt That wasn’t the train For it wasn’t moving At all When we met I told you And you laughed And we kissed. For it was you Love Always Only you Maggie Graham […]
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Friday, February 12, 2016 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, Writing
‘Fact’ by Magi Gibson – a love poem for Valentine’s Day
Fact I can no more say how much I love you than number the stars in the midnight sky I can no more say how much I love you than count the grains of sand on a beach catch the wind in my fist shimmy with the northern lights guess the name of […]
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Out of Sight by Ciara MacLaverty: a poem about love.
Out of Sight The best thing You do for me is to let me be as I am (better than I do for myself, I add) and when necessary you meet my what if it doesn’ts with a what if it does… You teach me more than you know- though I don’t always tell you […]
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Question by Calum Maclean. A Love Poem (of sorts).
The Question Darling, I can see that you’ve been looking at me strangely, I sense the question coming, ‘Do you ever want to change me?’ A threatening predicament, and one we’d best avoid; your mobile rings, you take the call, inside I’m overjoyed. Later, on the sofa, while I’m watching CSI, you turn to me […]
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Writing
First Love – a poem by Leela Soma for Valentine’s Day
First Love My first love, teen fresh, skin aglow A pearly sunny summer, so, so slow, Kisses rich, fondles and caresses mellow Our hearts and minds entwined, not low. Your breath on my skin, touch so soft That summer blue, the azure sky, the lot Laughter and love, like a cloying sweet Wonder now, […]
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A Valentine’s Story: 24 Hours in the City of Love by James Carson
24 hours in the city of love If your relationship’s in need of rekindling, why not spend Valentine’s Day in Paris, the capital of romance! What to bring As a woman with a passionate nature, the most important thing you should carry on this trip is a massive grudge from last week, when you returned […]
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Saturday, February 6, 2016 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, Writing
Selkie’s Song by Finola Scott
A poem about love. ‘Selkie’s Song’ published in NVP Anthology ‘The Second Tide’ Selkie’s Song From the depth of the blue night I waken. Slip sliding back beneath the white crests of sheets, shivering, I feel you barely waking, reach out and pull me in close. Snuggled up I’m anchored. Your sea-serpent arms hold me […]
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Friday, February 5, 2016 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Valentine's Day Glasgow 2016, Writing
Love Poem by Stephen Watt: I Think I’m Falling In Love With Football
I Think I’m Falling In Love With Football Saturday mornings are looking different. Fog has fallen upon the football pitches,covering every inch like a cathedral train.A delicious wispiness coruscates diamantesin the early rain; flares of white paintstreak up each wing into exploding corner flags of colour. Nets are hung over posts like bridal veils.Excited, barking […]
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Stephen Watt, Poet., Writing
Ars Technica, A Short Story by Paul McQuade
Ars Technica The knife cuts in, wickedly. Splinters crest in spiked knots. The knife digs deeper. For a purpose. For a promise. Joshua keeps his promises. His hands glisten with sap. There is sweat on his brow and a streak of cracking blood on his cheek. He drives the blade deeper into the wood. […]
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Saturday, July 12, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers
Memoirs: An Old Photograph by Mary Irvine
An Old Photograph Granddad Holland, Albert Henry, was married three times and was something of a Lothario by all accounts. Of course I only knew him as a kindly old granddad! He had several children by his first wife, Martha. My mother, Mary, was the youngest. Martha died from cancer when Mary was just into […]
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Monday, April 14, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Writing
A Poem for Spring: Chaos by Helen Frudd
Chaos What if I prefer the idea of being here without a god that the right conditions met in the dark and went bang and no deity but pure chance created me and everything else. Call it science, luck or magic the point is with no design or plan all this […]
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems, Writing
Beaches, a sonnet by Linda Jackson: Poems and Stories of Love: Glasgow Writers
The Beaches (Linda Jackson) Waving glass on the surface of eyes Myopia does add qualities Like immediacy, no perspective. The Bay of Findhorn in winter light curves up onto my lens and the near sky. There is only a vague division An Impressionist suggestion of separation Low sheen blues and high […]
Sunday, February 16, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems
What is Age? by Susan Muir: Love is in the air – Poetry and Stories of Love by Glasgow Writers
What is Age? (Susan Muir) To be young and carefree is such sweet joy Life will go on forever or so it seems It is often the time for girl meets boy The fulfilling of many of our dreams Career is now the most important thing To climb the ladder and be seen […]
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Scar Tissue by Peter Russell: Love is in the air, Poetry and Stories of Love by Glasgow Writers.
Scar Tissue (Peter Russell) The heart’s first infection is the deepest And its memory when young is blindest When kisses course our bloodstream the sweetest And lovers are the wildest, and the kindest. Youth gives strength, not active immunity, We’ve had no contact as first love’s vaccine; Young hearts sweat fevers with impunity, And […]
Stories of Love and Love Poems: No Dust Settles by Paul McCafferty
No Dust Settles by Paul McCafferty No dust settles on that place.The old place,the new one.Though trees have stretched and grass has grown around flowers openedto the sun. No other feet have walked there.Often I hear the song of wee birds that tweetabout our ancient home.I have seen so many cities come and go. Sudden […]
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Friday, February 14, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, stories and poems
