April 29, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is trees in honor of Arbor Day, which is
celebrated today, April 28.
Today’s poem is a wedding poem comparing two sisters to two
trees planted close together.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
No matter how we have fought, we will always be sisters.
Neither marriage nor distance nor children will change
The frictional fondness, part balm and part blisters,
No dawn can diminish nor passion make strange.
Like two trees with their wrestling roots underground,
Fighting for sun while restraining the wind,
By close and protracted proximity bound,
We've been shaped by a force that no fate can rescind.
And so it's with undaunted pleasure that I
Bid farewell to a part of myself, for I know
That beyond the illusions of what, when, and why,
We'll be together wherever we go.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/nomatt.html.
For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Trees
April 24: Find Your Perfect Mentor in a Tree
April 26: A Tree Is like a Frozen Dancer
April 27: All of Us Can Take Our Cue from Trees
April 28: A Tree Is a Gigantic Hand
April 29: No Matter How We Have Fought, We WillAlways Be Sisters
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