November 28, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is wedding anniversaries.
Today’s poem is a 25th anniversary poem about
commitment, choice, fate, and fortune.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Holding hands, we’ve walked through
many years,
A gift of daily
choice called happiness.
Perhaps such love’s
not easy to express.
Perhaps the only
fit remarks are tears.
Yet under light, love’s
beauty stabs and sears,
Too real to be
reduced to more or less,
Wistful paradise,
pure tenderness,
Embrace beyond
fulfillment, longing, fears.
No commitment could
be more complete,
There being little
in one’s life untouched.
Years pass; the
roots and branches intertwine;
Fortune seems like
fate; two souls seem one.
In fact, one’s
choice is one one must repeat.
Free will demands
one’s separateness, as such.
To love is to
create a place in time –
Here, now, a labor
that is never done.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/holdin.html.
For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries
November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit
November 28: Holding Hands, We’ve Walked Through Many Years
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