August 18, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is divorce.
Today’s poem is a divorce poem about how long it takes to
leave past love behind.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Love undoes its heritage quite slowly,
Spinning like a planet through its dust.
Sometimes it feels like hatred, sometimes mourning,
Sometimes pain long paralyzed by rust.
Sometimes shame of past humiliation
Wrings the heart with hands inured to toil,
And once again some drops of unspent fury
Spill upon the dry and barren soil.
Ay, me! When will it end? The seasoned sorrow
Of unforgiven trespasses of old?
No matter new love blossoming! There's somewhere
A place within untenanted and cold.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/loveun.html.
For more divorce poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/divorcepoems.html
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This week’s theme: Divorce
August 14: We’ll Go On, After You
August 15: Friends Go In and Out of People’s Lives
August 17: Jim Has Blue Eyes Flecked with Gold
August 18: Love Undoes Its Heritage Quite Slowly
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