Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose

February 12, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14.

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A Valentine’s Day poem about the need for love to overcome life’s pain:

Happiness is not a tended rose
Amid the prescient beauty of a garden:
Perhaps one senses soon some gate may close;
Perhaps one senses soon the earth will harden.
Years come and go like waves upon a shore,
Violent or peaceful with the wind.
After one has given up on more,
Love waits within the heart, its faith undimmed.
Even in a passage void of light,
Nether windings black with rage and grief,
There are waters sweet with lost delight
In which one finds a long longed-for relief.
No happiness can overcome life's pain
Except one love, and love give life again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day
2/12: Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose

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