Even as the Years Accumulate

May 21, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is an eighth anniversary poem about the love beneath the years.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even as the years accumulate,

In love there is a wonder always there,

Grace like light along a dark horizon,

Harbinger of sunrise in the heart,

Taking us each dawning by surprise.

Years pile up like leaves, disintegrate,

Each memory a seedling that we share

As we become entangled in a rhizome

Rich with roots we cannot tell apart,

Selves made one on which each self relies.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/evena4.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 18: Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

May 19: Eight Years and Counting

May 20: Here Among the Dishes, Pots, and Pans

May 21: Even as the Years Accumulate