April 15, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.
Today’s poem is for the first anniversary of living together
unmarried.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
For a year now we've been living together
In something less than marriage, more than friends,
Reasonably happy with each other,
Satisfied to serve our separate ends.
There are no promises, nor should there be,
As we pursue our passions day by day,
Needing only love, which we agree
Need not be guaranteed in any way.
In such a case, there is a case for giving
Very little, just enough to keep
Each even with the common cost of living,
Relating what we sow to what we reap.
So does love die, for love loves not the measure
Allocating carefully its treasure.
Reason may with reason count the cost,
Yet love that is not generous is lost.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/foraye.html.
For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html
.
This week’s theme: First Anniversaries
April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know
April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune
April 13: Happy First Anniversary
April 15: For a Year Now We’ve Been Living Together
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