July 29, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is gardens.
Today’s poem is a fourth anniversary poem in which married
love preserves the innocence of Eden.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Here we have a little bit of Eden,
An innocence deliberately detained.
Praised be love, that holds the heel of heaven,
Preserving what would else escape from pain,
Yet now renews the heart again, again.
For love depends upon a tended garden
Older than the myth of Adam's fall.
Underneath the usual confusion,
Resisting the implacable illusion
That makes of love a dream beyond recall,
Here it lives within the garden wall.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/herew3.html.
For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Gardens
July 24: There Is a Garden in My Heart
July 26: Kathleen Charlotte Angel Passed Away
July 27: Twenty-Eight3
July 28: Sixty-Seven2
July 29: Here We Have a Little Bit of Eden
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