Daryl Rose and Anthony Are Friends

August 13, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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A name and friendship poem about a couple that chose friendship over marriage:

Daryl Rose and Anthony are friends.
All their thoughts and feelings are entwined.
Regarding the strong message that this sends:
Yearnings can be shared and not combined.
Lives can go down separate paths, with friends
Reaching separate homes, though intertwined.
One waits upon some fool; the other sends
Such candor as with love can be combined.
Each is bound for other hearts, for friends
Are never quite so desperately entwined,
Needing still the whippoorwill that sends
Them word of greater rapture uncombined.
Heed the happiness of two close friends,
Oak-like in their postures, unentwined,
No doubt who hear the hints the cold wind sends,
Yet choose to love each other uncombined.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Friendship
August 10: We’re Never Completely in One Place
August 11: You Have a Smile That Lights the World
August 12: I Would Not Ask You to Forget
August 13: Daryl Rose and Anthony Are Friends