Jean Valentine Life Poems

  • 1.
    I am twenty,
    drifting in la chalupa,
    the blue boat painted with roses,
    white liliesâ??
    ...
  • 2.
    I needed a friend but
    I was in the other room â??
    not just the other room,
    another frame dragging blue
    ...
  • 3.
    People pray to each other. The way I say 'you' to someone else,
    respectfully, intimately, desperately. The way someone says
    'you' to me, hopefully, expectantly, intensely ...
    -Huub Oosterhuis
    ...
Total 3 Life Poems by Jean Valentine

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Joan Sidney: Jean was a great poet, an incredibly caring human being, and a wonderful teacher. Her passing is a great loss to all of us. I met her in 2012 at the Artist’s Colony.

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