February 6, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.
Today’s poem is a love poem about the full course of a love, from beginning to end.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Early love is like a mountain stream --
Clear and pure and laughing down the hills,
A flash of sunlight dimpling as it spills
Down into the valley of our dreams.
But then, for most of life, love is a river
Carrying downstream its muddy load --
A thriving habitat, a winding road,
A moment moving slowly through forever.
The current pushes hard against the tide,
Swirling with deep countercurrents, so
Complex one can’t untangle yes from no.
The wind whips wavelets ‘cross the water wide.
How beautiful! The broad breast of our love
Meets the even broader breast of the sea!
Our golden dreams a golden memory,
And in between a life - rich, full, enough.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite the poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/earlyl.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html.
This week’s theme: Romantic Love.
Feb. 1: I Want to Make Your Heart Beat Just for Me
Feb. 2: For You the Earth Must Be a Greener Green
Feb. 3: Supplication
Feb. 4: What Makes Stars Romantic
Feb. 5: You Cannot Feel the Twisting of My Heart
Feb. 6: Early Love Is like a Mountain Stream
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.
Today’s poem is a love poem about the full course of a love, from beginning to end.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Early love is like a mountain stream --
Clear and pure and laughing down the hills,
A flash of sunlight dimpling as it spills
Down into the valley of our dreams.
But then, for most of life, love is a river
Carrying downstream its muddy load --
A thriving habitat, a winding road,
A moment moving slowly through forever.
The current pushes hard against the tide,
Swirling with deep countercurrents, so
Complex one can’t untangle yes from no.
The wind whips wavelets ‘cross the water wide.
How beautiful! The broad breast of our love
Meets the even broader breast of the sea!
Our golden dreams a golden memory,
And in between a life - rich, full, enough.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite the poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/earlyl.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html.
This week’s theme: Romantic Love.
Feb. 1: I Want to Make Your Heart Beat Just for Me
Feb. 2: For You the Earth Must Be a Greener Green
Feb. 3: Supplication
Feb. 4: What Makes Stars Romantic
Feb. 5: You Cannot Feel the Twisting of My Heart
Feb. 6: Early Love Is like a Mountain Stream
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