Vivid Garments of Our Love

February 16, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day.

Today’s poem is about life as the garment of love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Vivid garments of our love: A walk

Along a rocky, jasmine-scented coast;

Little snips of playful nonsense talk;

Enjoying back and forth a swift riposte;

Need like a wave hungry for the shore,

Then rising, rising, rising till it breaks,

Imploding, crashing, till it is no more,

Nothing but a wash of bliss and grace;

Each taking turns with pain, but not alone,

‘Mid agonies, a melody of love

Singing in a silent world of stone,

Dancing where no muscle would dare move;

And underneath these precious, treasured clothes,

Yearning still, two tender, naked souls.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/vividg.html. For more Valentine’s Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/valentinesdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

February 13: To Ask You to Be My Valentine

February 14: Be My Valentine, My Love

February 15: Vistas of the Past Are All Around Me

February 16: Vivid Garments of Our Love