August 19, 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 reaching out to a former spouse
for friendship.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
There is no mountain higher than the wall
That comes between two people once in love.
But time can tear a mountain down with tears
As former lovers slowly move towards touch.
There is no happiness in hard, cold anger
Twisted like a girder in one's way.
The sun and rain can manage to grow flowers
Across the bleakest crust of lava plain.
So we, too, I hope, can manage friendship
Upon the battlefield of past defeat.
I would not want to lose our years of loving
To moments caught for good in bitter light.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/ther15.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
August 19: There Is No Mountain Higher than the Wall
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