June 29, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is this week’s theme.
Today’s poem is a wedding poem for two musicians.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Change and love are contrapuntal voices
Held together by one harmony.
Remember that, though wed, one still makes choices
In which the will must shape love’s melody.
Sing, then, of that interminable duet,
The interplay of permanence and change,
Of which a marriage is the best score yet,
Performed by those whose lives love has arranged.
How might two people keep their lifelong vows,
Each changing, changing through the passing years?
Remember, then, the beauty that allows
A song to make a timeless joy of tears.
One creates through love a dwelling place
In which one lives with dignity and grace,
Founded on an act of will that would
Embrace for life what makes life sane and good.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/chang3.html.
For more wedding poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Weddings.
June 27: Wedding Vows
June 29: Change and Love Are Contrapuntal Voices
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