Valentine's Day always found me aquiver

Countless generations lapsed since height of Greco-Roman mythology conceived, birthed and populated vast canopy of sky and expanse of terrestrial firmament, whereat obeisant propinquity quintessentially remains stalwart this day and age as guise dolls dote demonstrably come Valentine’s Day, when Cupid plucked from the quiver, notched in bowstring and launched Eros tinged arrow induces love struck swain to swoon upon a lassie faire, whence fecund female feast proliferates progeny.

Yours truly not necessarily romantic at heart

more accurately methinks myself

lame and inadequate sorry excuse

for reasonably rhyming spouse,

but courtesy after sipping

(née - chugging away

like snorting caboose)

Welch's sparkling white grape juice

accompanied with entree couscous

generic and garden variety

run of the mill by the floss husband

ordinarily fancy free and footloose

feigned being inebriated

noisily squawking - imitating

deafening honking lunging goose

creating ruckus whereby resultant outcome,

whereby wife playfully threatened me

to hang me (all choking aside) with noose,

(I needed to gibbet a chance)

as ye can accurately dead deuce

nearly turning unnatural shade of chartreuse,

thus I immediately called truce

after hiring team of animated experts

Rocky the squirrel

and Bullwinkle the moose.

Ring with no feather in my cap only envy
at handsome man drakes with bucks,
who could bank on "hot chicks" willingly
aligned in arrow emitting clucks
fluffing their respective tail feathers amidst
loud squawking out quacking,

yet straight as an arrow nock king,

establishing pecking order like ducks,

or any other foxy fowl billetted
within walled din noisy hen house
preening, each be solder self flux
sing wings and waddling, flirting, casting...
webbed wide good lucks

at the growing flock
including male friends relatives,
minus yours truly, whose presence,
would merely generate a yawn,
though even a distinct black swan
received royal carpet treatment
particularly one named Shawn

encompassing another honorable guest

with illustrious surname Rawn
guests underwritten by Cupid,
whose presence surreptitiously withdrawn
(invitations distributed widely explained,
just beak cuz gerrymandering redrawn)

even provoking deer interest
of stray doe eyed fawn

hence lacking bravado and brawn

this bird den some seedy,
yet dove out crow kissing Avocet

trundled off to parts unknown you bet

far from boys stir russ, raw cuss, diss cuss

ting clacking clique, and thus this solitary fret

full ostracized, rejected, unwanted egret,
who heron there experienced many a let

down, not simply because of stork disparity

with the Aves and havenots,
but I never met
any other species so set
in their ways, hence off
on a wing and prayer
in search of other buoys and gulls,
whom this dodo bird they will coe vet!