Forty-Seven Years, and Still Counting

December 3, 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 47^th anniversary poem about married love as a lifelong dance.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-seven years, and still counting!

Over so much time, so much change!

Remember when we were our children's ages,

There in the thick of working out our lives?

Years are leaves piling up around us.

Sing, then, of the blessings that surround us,

Each wonder that the wondering heart revives!

Vast one's life! We travel it in stages,

Even as love makes the land less strange,

Needing love to make life more inviting.

You and I together have been dancing,

Embraced through years we would not rearrange,

Although, of course, we might excise some pages,

Returning, turning to the dance, where lies

Such grace as still has power to astound us.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/47year.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries

November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit

November 28: Holding Hands, We’ve Walked Through Many Years

November 29: How Beautiful Life Is, and How Rewarding

November 30: Each Year a Marriage Gets a Little Better

December 1: Here’s a Toast to Caring and Compassion

December 2: Happy Ninth Anniversary

December 3: Forty-Seven Years and Still Counting

Happy Ninth Anniversary

December 2, 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 9^th anniversary poem about love and time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happy ninth anniversary!

As the years go by,

Passions come and go like tides,

Pleasures live and die.

Yet love is more dependable,

Nestled in the heart,

In which your bit of grace

Now has a name and face,

The choice you made nine years ago,

Honed by will and art.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ78.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries

November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit

November 28: Holding Hands, We’ve Walked Through Many Years

November 29: How Beautiful Life Is, and How Rewarding

November 30: Each Year a Marriage Gets a Little Better

December 1: Here’s a Toast to Caring and Compassion

December 2: Happy Ninth Anniversary

Here's a Toast to Caring and Compassion

December 1, 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 an 8^th anniversary poem about giving and happiness in love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here’s a toast to caring and compassion,

And love, which is the music of that song.

Praised be those whose love of life is strong,

Pleased to give with neither writ nor ration.

Years are rarely merciful to passion,

Even as love would that joy prolong,

Innocent of all that might be wrong,

Giving generously, as is its fashion.

Happiness remains an act of will,

The daily choice to love with grace and skill,

Having found the place where one belongs.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/heres4.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries

November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit

November 28: Holding Hands, We’ve Walked Through Many Years

November 29: How Beautiful Life Is, and How Rewarding

November 30: Each Year a Marriage Gets a Little Better

December 1: Here’s a Toast to Caring and Compassion

Each Year a Marriage Gets a Little Better

November 30, 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 an 11^th anniversary poem about the continued need for romance in marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Each year a marriage gets a little better,

Like a house slowly settling in.

Edges age, smooth out, then lean together;

Voices whisper faintly in the wind.

Even so, fresh flowers can do wonders,

Needed at the windows, at the door.

Years of wear could use a little color,

Embellishing what else needs little more.

All marriages can profit from romance,

Required to turn duty into dance,

Still beautiful, with much more love in store.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/eachy3.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries

November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit

November 28: Holding Hands, We’ve Walked Through Many Years

November 29: How Beautiful Life Is, and How Rewarding

November 30: Each Year a Marriage Gets a Little Better

How Beautiful Life Is, and How Rewarding

November 29, 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 10^th anniversary poem about love as background music.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How beautiful life is, and how rewarding!

All one needs to do is be in love.

People fall in love with little warning;

Praised be those whose loves resilient prove!

Yet love can sometimes be like background music,

The unheard song that gives the moment grace,

Enduring melody for those who choose it,

Needing, wanting love’s sustained embrace.

Time and change need not desire chill:

Happiness remains the child of will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/howbe4.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries

November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit

November 28: Holding Hands, We’ve Walked Through Many Years

November 29: How Beautiful Life Is, and How Rewarding

Holding Hands, We've Walked Through Many Years

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 25^th 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 .

This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries

November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit

November 28: Holding Hands, We’ve Walked Through Many Years

Freedom Is the Power to Commit

November 27, 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 49^th anniversary poem about love and choice.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Freedom is the power to commit

Oneself to limiting one’s freedom. Real choice

Rules out choices. One finds the proper fit,

Then through years of loving finds one’s voice.

Yet some are loath to choose because they fear

Not being free to choose, at every moment

In flight from choice because they cannot bear

Not living only, solely, in the present.

Each lover lives within a larger space,

Yielding to the future and the past,

Engaged in well-timed acts of timeless grace

As each, each day renews a love that lasts.

Rejoice, then, in that choice made long ago,

Still choosing love, for love is what you know.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/freed4.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Wedding Anniversaries

November 27: Freedom Is the Power to Commit