And if your wife/girlfriend is in love with poetry, then sharing love ... The racing of heart and the calmness around, In her eyes, I saw what a thousand future holds. In her eyes, my day calls ...

Duffy uses the metaphor of an onion to describe the complexity of love in her poem 'Valentine'. "Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion." On the face of it, Carol Ann Duffy’s ...

Alone or strung together they are delicious, emotional, heart-tugging and clever ... but I was falling in love with, and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics into my diary.