I'm not entering the competition but I do have a Valentine poem:
FIRST VALENTINE
Perry Vale and Perry Mews,
which anybody might confuse,
I struggled long and hard to find
a message for my Valentine,
remembering to stamp the mail,
I printed Mews instead of Vale.
Now thinking with the nous of Zen,
denied me at the age of ten,
I see this oversight of mine
as first in an extended line
of crass mistakes which were insane
and showed that love was not my game:
a crucial skill at which to fail
began when I wrote Mews not Vale.
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