January 30, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is married love: the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.
Today’s poem is a poem about the marriage of a couple nearing death.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .
Yours,
Nick Gordon
The time for love is now fast disappearing
As years tick on and flesh descends towards dust.
Death, so long a question, now is nearing,
And one makes peace with pain because one must.
Yet love still grips the heart with unspent yearning,
A hunger unappeased from birth to death,
A need for need, an unrequited burning
That casts its doomed delight past all regret.
O star that lights the else unlit creation,
Desiring ever what can never be,
Longing for some sense beyond sensation,
Candle to a light we cannot see:
Be for us now in these last years of life
The beacon that guides home a man and wife.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite the poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thetim.html . For more poems about marriage, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/marriagepoems.html .
This week’s theme: Married Love.
Jan. 25: Marriage Proverbs2
Jan. 26: Marriage Proverbs
Jan. 27: There Is a Point to Living Vertically
Jan. 28: Sometimes When You’re Married
Jan. 29: We Drive a Tractor/Trailer Unit
Jan. 30: The Time for Love Is Now Fast Disappearing
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is married love: the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.
Today’s poem is a poem about the marriage of a couple nearing death.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .
Yours,
Nick Gordon
The time for love is now fast disappearing
As years tick on and flesh descends towards dust.
Death, so long a question, now is nearing,
And one makes peace with pain because one must.
Yet love still grips the heart with unspent yearning,
A hunger unappeased from birth to death,
A need for need, an unrequited burning
That casts its doomed delight past all regret.
O star that lights the else unlit creation,
Desiring ever what can never be,
Longing for some sense beyond sensation,
Candle to a light we cannot see:
Be for us now in these last years of life
The beacon that guides home a man and wife.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite the poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thetim.html . For more poems about marriage, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/marriagepoems.html .
This week’s theme: Married Love.
Jan. 25: Marriage Proverbs2
Jan. 26: Marriage Proverbs
Jan. 27: There Is a Point to Living Vertically
Jan. 28: Sometimes When You’re Married
Jan. 29: We Drive a Tractor/Trailer Unit
Jan. 30: The Time for Love Is Now Fast Disappearing
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