Share a poem from Ted Kooser’s Valentines

A MAP OF THE WORLD
 
One of the ancient maps of the world
is heart-shaped, carefully drawn
and once washed with bright colors,
though the colors have faded
as you might expect feelings to fade
from a fragile old heart, the brown map
of life. But feeling is indelible,
and longing and infinite, a starburst compass
pointing in all the directions
two lovers might go, a fresh breeze
swelling their sails, the future uncharted,
still far from the edge
where the sea pours into the stars.
 
                              -Ted Kooser
 
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