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.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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 2: Fifty Years Is Really Not Enough
June 3: Forty-Two Years Is like a Song
June 7: Happiness Hangs Loosely on Your Lives
No comments:
Post a Comment