July 22, 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 the enormity of the
choice to marry.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Out of love comes all in life that matters;
Nor can one love unless one knows one's need.
Years are walls against which passion shatters,
Opening the way for joys that bleed.
Underneath the choice of who is how,
Requiring one again each day to choose,
Embracing a forever ever now,
Not least because one fears what one might lose.
Given its immensity, the choice
Astounds, as blind or provident as fate;
Given its beauty, one can but rejoice,
Evangelist alight before the gate.
More than how one lives is how one loves,
Ever the terrain through which one moves,
Not shaped by fortune, but the work of will,
Though fortune ride the wind for good or ill.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/outofl.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 22: Out of Love Comes All in Life That Matters
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