V is for...

(A friend's child was set homework to list and illustrate words starting with the letter 'v'. As a result I have verdigris vases and vitriolic valkyries hovering around inside my head....)

  Valentine was a vagabond -

But valorous? Oh, verily!

He vanquished vampires and vipers vast

but vaunted not his victories.

Where the valleys are veiled in violet

and when Vespers is vague in the wind

Valentine vents his violin for the vixen

and all of her vulpine kin.