Happy Valentine's Day

These are the Hearts for Dickens' Challenge Week 2.  Some really imaginative and creative Blips this week.!  I am so impressed!

Realgrumpytyke heart
PaulaJ's heart
FS2012 heart
Looking south heart
Sandy Shore Heart
Biblinros heart
Peachez Heart
Gloria's Heart
Paladian's Heart
ClickyChick's Heart
JeanneB 53's Heart


Lovely red roses this morning!  What a treat!
Better than an onion I think.
Valentine

Not a red rose or a satin heart.

I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.

Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.

I am trying to be truthful.

Not a cute card or a kissogram.

I give you an onion.
Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
possessive and faithful
as we are,
for as long as we are.

Take it.
Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring,
if you like.
Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your fingers,
cling to your knife.

Carol Ann Duffy
You might get some more Duffy later on in the week in the Dickens challenge.  Give it a go this week!


How would you interpret these quotations?  Do any of them.  Any day this week and put the appropriate TAG on them.


 
Week 3 (Week commencing Monday 15 February)  
Great Expectations
 
Dickens Great Expectations 1 (DGE1)
 
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
 
Dickens Great Expectations 2 (DGE2)
 
“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
 
Dickens Great Expectations 3 (DGE3)
 
“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
 
Dickens Great Expectations 4 (DGE4)
 
“There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”
 
Dickens Great Expectations 5 (DGE5)
 
“I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness”