Love Returns on Saturdays

January 13, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is marriage.

Today’s poem is about love on the weekend.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Love returns on Saturdays,

Having been away

To labor in the labyrinth

That underlies our joy.

How dark the days of abstinence,

Of sleep too dire to stay,

Of mornings mere mechanical

And flesh no hands employ!

But then--Ah, then!--on Saturdays

Love finally has its way,

Coming into crevices

Whose cravings passions buoy.

How beautiful, the love that can

Such soporifics sway!

No wasteland world of weekdays shall

Our dalliance destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/lover2.html. For more poems about marriage, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/marriagepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

January 10: Joy Is in the Simple Things

January 11: Life Sings with an Extraordinary Passion

January 12: Love Finds Little Latitude

January 13: Love Returns on Saturdays