July 18, 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 acrostic poem proposing marriage by
reading the poem vertically down the left side.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
What I want to ask of you is this,
If I can find the nerve to make the leap:
Life scatters dreams across the hills of sleep,
Lest it be too easy to find bliss.
Yet I am aware what I might miss.
Only what we treasure can we keep,
Ultimately sowing what we reap,
Moving us to dare that first brief kiss.
And so I must reveal to you my heart,
Recalling all my courage from its rest,
Ready for whatever word might be.
You are all the object of my quest,
My cynosure, my life, my other part.
Each line of this begins my urgent plea.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/whati.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
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