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
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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.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Anniversaries
June 2: Fifty Years Is Really Not Enough
June 3: Forty-Two Years Is like a Song
June 6: Happiness Comes from Choosing Happiness
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