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
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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.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Weddings
June 10: From My Present Mountaintop
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