July 21, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is proposing marriage and getting engaged.
Today’s poem is an engagement poem about how the choice to
marry goes beyond reason.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Of love and fortune, happiness and choosing:
No reason is enough for such a choice.
You total up the winning and the losing,
Out of which comes no commanding voice.
Underneath the numbers is the need,
Reckless as a snowflake in the wind,
Eden once again by love decreed,
Nor can mere knowledge such sweet hope rescind.
Gifts of grace are given but to those
Amazed enough to step into the light,
Great with wonder at the life they chose,
Embracing it with unabashed delight.
May you choose again each day to love,
Each the gift that does the other move,
Needing always someone who needs you,
That fortune not for one find joy, but two.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/oflove.html.
For more engagement poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/engagementpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Proposing Marriage and Getting Engaged
July 18: What I Want to Ask of You Is This
July 19: Will You Share Your Life with Me
July 21: Of Love and Fortune, Happiness and Choosing
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