January 19, 2020
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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An anniversary poem about the need to cultivate one’s love:
How does love mature into a garden?
A wild field, of
course, need not be wed.
Pure pleasure tends
the softest soil to harden;
Perhaps the heart
requires that tears be shed.
Yearning blooms when
it becomes a song,
A melody that savors
its own beauty;
Nor will requited
passion linger long
Not stroked from
time to time by naked duty.
In gardens one
defines where nature ends;
Vividly one wills
the world to be.
Each swath of
loveliness on love depends,
Restored each day to
passion one can see.
Sing, then, of sweet
desire turned to love,
And of the grace
that does all lovers move,
Renewing in your
song each day the vow
You never made more
willingly than now.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Anniversaries
1/19: How Does Love Mature into a Garden
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