Forty-Two Years Is like a Song

June 3, 2020

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

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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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

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

June 2: Fifty Years Is Really Not Enough

June 3: Forty-Two Years Is like a Song