Poem of the Week: June 2020

June 26: There Is No Future Good Enough

June 27: To the Graduate, No More a Child

June 28: Just Want to Say How Proud We Are of You

Saturday, June 27, 2020

To the Graduate, No More a Child

June 27, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem from parent to child on graduation day:

To the graduate, no more a child,

On whom these many years my love has shone:

Take pleasure in the pleasure of my pride,

However much you've managed on your own.

Even as you dance upon your stage,

Growing ever more endowed with grace,

Remember that my love will never change,

A place for you beyond all time and place.

Do what you will within your own wide world,

Understanding in your own wise way:

Always know you are my field of wonder,

The wild, star-strewn moor on which I wander,

Even as I honor you today.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/tothe2.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 26: There Is No Future Good Enough

June 27: To the Graduate, No More a Child

Friday, June 26, 2020

There Is No Future Good Enough

June 26, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A graduation poem about idealistic hopes and dreams:

There is no future good enough

For what we hope to be,

Nor world with windows wide enough

For what we hope to see.

Yet when we turn to compromise

The dreams with which we wake,

We'll glimpse behind a memory

Which we cannot forsake.

How beautiful this time of youth

That is so quickly gone!

We came to learn together, and

In moments we are done.

How long we will remember this

Brief time when life would wait

Upon the true perception that

Comes always far too late.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/there5.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 26: There Is No Future Good Enough

Thursday, June 25, 2020

I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

June 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem from a deceased parent to his or her child at graduation:

I would be proud of you, could I attend,

Would I now know the things I'll never know,

Could I have watched you come to comprehend

The wonder of the world in which you grow.

Do not think I did not think of you,

Imagining the beauty of this day,

For I was at your graduation, too,

Though long ago, and in a different way.

Life can be full, no matter short or long,

As long as love can fill it with its grace.

And I have felt such pride, and love so strong,

That you will live your life in my embrace.

So of the pride today I claim my share:

Though I am not, I know that I am there.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/iwoul3.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A graduation poem about the apparent unreality of the moment:

Graduation grabs you from behind.

Reality seems suddenly unreal,

A timeless moment somehow trapped in time,

Drowning in a feeling you can't feel.

Ultimately, when the day is over

And you are left alone with who you are,

The moment will be something to remember,

In which you feel your feelings from afar.

Only now too much is happening.

Nor can you keep your heart from wandering.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/grad12.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A graduation poem about the ambivalent feelings that come with graduation day:

Glad to graduate and sad to leave.

Ready to go, reluctant to depart.

Anxious to learn what more we can achieve.

Divided down the center of the heart.

Underneath our premature nostalgia,

Avidly we dream of things to come.

The moment is a multilayered mixture

In which each part is greater than the sum.

Our longing is the source of memory.

Nor will we soon forget when we were we.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/gladto.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 22, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A graduation poem about the power and endurance of memories:

Give a little thought to years gone by,

Remembering the time we spent together.

A moment, though long vanished, lasts forever,

Determining the tilt of every why.

Understand that nothing will be lost.

As we go, we also will remain,

Taking with us what we leave behind.

In each of us today a border's crossed,

Offering a past we will retain

Now that we'll be scattered to the wind.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/givea2.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

You Are Our Knight in Shining Armor

June 21, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Wedding or Father’s Day poem to a (prospective) stepfather:

You are our knight in shining armor,

Pilgrim of our plea,

The Atlas for our wounded world,

Our rescuer at sea.

You are the pillar of our hopes,

The deep bass of our song,

The strength that underlies our strength,

The calm for which we long.

You came into our house of dreams

And turned it into truth,

Entering at just the point

Where yearning shatters youth.

What could motivate someone

To bear another's load

But that most beautiful of lights,

The inner lamp of love.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/youar5.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 19: Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

June 20: I Want to Say How Proud I Am of You

June 21: You Are Our Knight in Shining Armor

Friday, June 19, 2020

I Want to Say How Proud I Am of You

June 20, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Father’s Day poem from a son to a father who has finally broken free of his addiction:

I want to say how proud I am of you

That you have broken free of your addiction.

It's something I don't know that I could do

Were I so sorely tried by your affliction.

My years of growing up were on my own,

As you were in the belly of your beast,

The two of us indifferent and alone,

Most in need of love while loving least.

How sad! That you and I have lost those years:

I, of childhood, and you, of your only child.

But now's the time for joy and not for tears,

For you are well, and we are reconciled.

Whatever life may bring or time may prove,

Know that you will always have my love.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/iwant6.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 19: Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

June 20: I Want to Say How Proud I Am of You

Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

June 19, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Father’s Day poem about how each father must step into the role of his father and recreate the myth of home for his children:

Home is a myth that must be recreated

As every generation comes of age,

Placed by their own children on the stage

Precisely when their fantasies have faded.

Yet one is more than amply compensated

For playing well the well-wrought saint or sage,

As love wells up beneath the camouflage,

The truth that makes the myth immaculate.

How beautiful it is to be a father!

Emperor forever of a dream

Repeated through the labyrinths of longing

'Mid memories more true than what has been.

Sing, then, of myths that tie one to another

Deep beneath the bulwarks of belonging,

As tales begun before the words begin,

Yet fabricate the worlds in which words mean.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/homei2.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 19: Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Happy Father's Day to One Whose Love

June 18, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Father’s Day poem to a father who is reluctant to be celebrated:

Happy Father's Day to one whose love

Asks nothing more than that it more might give!

Praised be those whose self-love selfless proves;

Praised be those who by such pleasure live.

Years of longing find no better plight,

For everything that is, is ever here.

A love that gives, gives unalloyed delight,

Taking in more breath than it can bear.

How lovely, then, to give this day to you,

Embracing who would rather us embrace,

Rejoicing in the ballet old anew,

'Twixt give and give a shy and awkward grace!

So may you ever be on Father's Day,

Despite yourself, the hero of the play,

Accepting from your loved ones what you would

Yet give yourself to them, if you but could.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ14.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

Happy Father's Day to a Father-to-Be

June 17, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Father’s Day poem to an expectant father:

Happy Father's Day to a father-to-be!

A little kidney bean has sprouted limbs,

Put forth fingers, toes, while silent hymns

Praise life with music none will hear but she.

You'll never relish more such mystery --

Full of the radiance with which life brims

As you await its needs, its wants, its whims,

The timbre of its love, its will-to-be.

How beautiful, this time of expectation!

Each moment silent in the packed, hushed hall,

Reverberating with the sounds of waiting

'Ere the outstretched arms begin to beat.

So beautiful, this barely breathed elation!

Days go on, but underneath them all

A hunger that there is no hope of sating

Yearns to kiss two tiny, wrinkled feet.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ51.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Happiness Is Served by Celebration

June 16, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Father’s Day poem celebrating uncles:

Happiness is served by celebration,

As one could use reminders of one's worth.

Praised be days devoted to relation,

Preserving ties of friendship, love, and birth.

Yet uncles have no day, so this must do --

Father's Day, on which we recognize

All close male relatives, so, too,

They might see themselves through our eyes.

Here's to you, then, an uncle who plays well

Each well-considered role in which you're cast,

Restoring far more faith than you can tell --

'Tis the smallest gestures that will last.

So may you enjoy your destined part,

Devoted to the duties of the heart,

An uncle, near or distant, who remains

Yet one of those whose love a child sustains.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ60.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

Monday, June 15, 2020

Freedom Is a Casualty of Loving

June 15, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Father’s Day poem about what one it takes to be a good father.

Freedom is a casualty of loving,

As one must freely choose to be unfree,

Taking is, instead of what might be,

Holding onto essence for dear meaning.

Each father ought to be the nearest mountain,

Rock-solid, unmoving in his passion,

'Twixt wind and world the will no will can fashion,

Sustaining innocence through sheer intention.

Depths are in more places than below,

As those who dive for melody well know,

Yielding memories sunlit and certain.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/freed2.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Love Can Be like Lightning

June 14, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is weddings.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A wedding poem about how love changes with marriage no matter how it first appears:

Love can be like lightning: all of a sudden

Electric shock goes tingling to the toes.

In some, however, it can come quite slowly,

Spilling over sandbags as it grows.

However love first shows itself, a marriage

Alters all its labyrinthine ways:

Seismic shifts deep down restructure mountains;

Homes jiggle as some expectation sways.

All you have and are is now together.

Love shapes not just your feelings but your lives.

Each must choose each day to love the other,

Needing more than life what love decides.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/loveca.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 12: I Am the Happiest I’ve Ever Been

June 13: I Wish My Grandmother Were Here with Us

June 14: Love Can Be like Lightning

Saturday, June 13, 2020

I Wish My Grandmother Were Here with Us

June 13, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is weddings.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A wedding poem recited just as the bride is about to toss the bouquet, wishing that her deceased grandmother could have attended the wedding:

I wish my grandmother were here with us

To see and celebrate this happy day.

I have her in the center of my heart

Just like this special rose in my bouquet.

Whoever catches this, please pass it on

To someone who is part of all you see,

To someone who has sculpted you with love,

Who means as much to you, as she to me.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/iwishm.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 12: I Am the Happiest I’ve Ever Been

June 13: I Wish My Grandmother Were Here with Us

Friday, June 12, 2020

I Am the Happiest I've Ever Been

June 12, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is weddings.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A wedding poem from bride to groom anticipating the happiness to come:

I am the happiest I've ever been.

My loneliness will be forever gone.

When you're away, my empty feelings spin,

But after this, I'll always be at home.

You're the only person in the world

From whom I cannot stand to be apart.

But now in your devotion I'll be curled,

Just as you'll take shelter in my heart.

And so we two create a separate thing

In which we dwell mystically as one.

Neither you nor I will solo sing

Once this strange new harmony's begun.

How sweet to join with you in this new life,

Not only as myself, but as your wife.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/iamthe.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 12: I Am the Happiest I’ve Ever Been

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Give Yourselves the Gift of Harmony

June 11, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is weddings.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A name and wedding poem about how a wedding is both the culmination of changes that have already occurred and the start of something new:

Give yourselves the gift of harmony

In being each for each a loving other.

Underneath the passion to be free

Lies the deeper longing for a lover.

In loving well, you make yourselves a wellspring,

A source of life to all who would draw near,

Needing but a glance to make the heart sing,

Affluent in all that makes life clear.

And so today you choose what you have chosen,

No longer waiting for what you've become,

Destined for a mystic moment, frozen

Just where time by longing is undone.

All you are is now a part of two,

Severing the old world from the new,

Opening a vista rich with love.

Nor will the grace of life pass by unmoved.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/giveyo.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

From My Present Mountaintop

June 10, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is weddings.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A wedding poem that is also a thank-you poem to parents who helped raise an out-of-wedlock child:

From my present mountaintop

I look back whence I came:

An unexpected passage through

Some bleak and rough terrain.

I look on what you did for me:

The years of borrowed days,

The sacrifice of liberty

That only love repays;

The grace with which you gave yourselves,

Though not without great cost,

Not blaming me for fortune's gift

Nor counting what was lost.

I feel a flood of gratitude

Like sunlight through my heart,

A light that lights the candle of

The life about to start.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/frommy.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

Monday, June 8, 2020

Time Rewrites the Contract Every Day

June 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is weddings.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A name and wedding poem about the need to make the choice to love every day:

Time rewrites the contract every day.

In marriage one is never done with choosing,

For one is ever free beyond refusing,

Free at every moment, come what may.

A vow to love creates a sheltered bay,

Not free of wind and wave, but still a mooring,

Yielding anchorage well worth securing,

A safe, serene, and gentle place to stay.

Now choose it, choose its joy again, again.

Daily make the precious choice to love.

Make your will the sun upon your tides.

In choosing love, you will that joy sustain,

Knowing well the winds that in you move,

Embracing well the loved one by your side.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/timewr.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

Take a Little Time to Feel Your Love

June 8, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is weddings.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A name and wedding poem about how through love one can experience a bit of eternity:

Take a little time to feel your love.

It’s bashful, awkward, gentle, quiet, shy.

Feel it furtively within you move;

Feel its wanting without need for why.

All you are and have will disappear,

No more than well-worn whispers in the wind.

Yet in your love you are forever here,

A bit of God that time cannot rescind.

Nothing in this world can match its glory.

Destiny must wait upon its will.

More than chance or fate, it writes your story,

Infinity that’s yearning, yearning still.

Know your love’s the very best of you,

Embracing it each passing day anew.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/takeal.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Happiness Hangs Loosely on Your Lives

June 7, 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 https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A forty-third anniversary poem about the creation and maintenance of happiness:

Happiness hangs loosely on your lives,

A garment that you wear with fortune's blessing.

Praised be both the wisdom and the will

Pressed between the pages of your days,

Years and years of choices amid chances.

For now, this day, the rhapsody revives

Old memories of love beyond expressing,

Returned as music, passionate and still,

That turns and turns with wonder as it plays,

Yearning that refuses trite romances.

There is a place in all love that survives --

Home, where nakedness needs no undressing,

In which, with candor and sufficient skill,

Reason turns away its clear-eyed gaze,

Deferring to the heart, which weeps and dances.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ47.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love

June 4: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

June 5: Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine

June 6: Happiness Comes from Choosing Happiness

June 7: Happiness Hangs Loosely on Your Lives

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Happiness Comes from Choosing Happiness

June 6, 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 https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A seventeenth anniversary poem about the choice of happiness and love even in the face of adversity:

Happiness comes from choosing happiness,

As love's the consequence of choosing love.

Perhaps one’s angel shall the weaker prove,

Pinned by one whose fortune it must bless.

Yet some must make their choice under duress,

Salvaging the unspent sweetness of

Each moment that across their lives might move,

Vivid in the wake of its caress.

Endurance is no name for an embrace,

Nor is one's joy much kindled by one's fury.

There is but death and illness in the offing;

Eventually, all life ends in pain.

Even so, love touches life with grace,

Not vested in the verdict of the jury,

Transforming what would else have little meaning,

Happily engaged again, again.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ35.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love

June 4: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

June 5: Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine

June 6: Happiness Comes from Choosing Happiness

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine

June 5, 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 https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A first anniversary poem about the eternal will to love:

Frequently one finds a little sunshine

In places where the forecast calls for rain,

Restoring one to life and love again,

Suddenly bursting through the broken cloud line.

There is, when one is walking up an incline,

A source of strength no apathy can drain

Nor gradient preclude through pitch or pain,

Nestled in the will beneath one's timeline:

Interior even to one's soul,

Vaster than the panoply of night,

Embedded in the very act of being,

Resident in every thought and word.

Silence is the longing of the whole,

A yearning absolute and infinite,

Revelation of eternal feeling

Yet dancing motionless to songs unheard.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/freque.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love

June 4: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

June 5: Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine

The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

June 4, 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 https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A twenty-fourth anniversary poem in which a couple pauses to watch time flow by:

The years flow through our marriage like a river

We watch from some steep bank along the way,

Each of us as much in love as ever,

Nor can our words this sense of grace convey.

Time runs on below us as we pause,

Yielding to the wonder of our love,

Fate that seems beyond effect and cause,

Our choices moved by ends we know not of.

Underneath our love is something more,

Refusing time and will, refusing age,

The joy in being that all life is for,

Here within us as we turn the page.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/theye3.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love

June 4: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Forty-Two Years Is like a Song

June 3, 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 https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A forty-second anniversary poem about the beautiful love song beneath the usual anniversary song:

Forty-two years is like a song

Old and fondly sung,

Relevant to any age,

Trite, but never wrong.

Yet underneath there is a love

Too densely wrought to sing,

Well-tempered in the weight of years,

Of passion made, and spring.

Yes, there it is: a madrigal

Evolved into a life,

A gift amidst one's wandering

Reserved for man and wife,

Sweet song of man and wife.

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/42year.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Fifty Years Is Really Not Enough

June 2, 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 https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A fiftieth anniversary poem calling for fifty more years:

Fifty years is really not enough

In which to plumb the depths of someone's soul.

Fifty more years, then, should be the goal:

To know the beauty of another's love,

Yearnings share, and any doubts rebuff.

Yet life was never easy in those years.

Everest is sometimes hard to climb.

A will to love has brought you to this time,

Rich in joys that time cannot remove.

So may this day be filled with happy tears!

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/50year.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love