Here Among the Dishes, Pots, and Pans

May 20, 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 a 23^rd anniversary poem about a love that endures beneath the everyday world.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here among the dishes, pots, and pans,

Ants and spiders, fungi, mites, and mold,

Pastries, pastas, fears of growing old,

Passions, plaints, pills, purposes, and plans;

Yes, here among arthritic, blue-veined hands,

The whispered warnings of the coming cold;

Well-worn tales all-too-often told,

Easy words too clear to understand;

Nestled deep beneath this restless sea,

These waves that break above our sunken shores,

Yearning, turning, yearning yet again,

There we are, somehow still in love.

How beautiful! The land of you and me,

Innocent beyond all care or cause,

Restoring in Atlantis Eden’s reign

Deep below the world in which we move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/herea4.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