Happy Fifty-First Anniversary

October 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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 fifty-first anniversary poem about the commemoration after the big fiftieth anniversary:

Happy fifty-first anniversary!
A wavelet in the wash of last year's wave?
Perhaps. But may you ride it happily
Past the mark the last long groundswell laid,
Yielding to the gentle upward grade.

For every year sweeps just a little higher,
Inundating all that came before.
Foam bubbles where the incoming waves retire,
The champagne of the unresisting shore.
Years rise and fall across that timeless floor.

For you, may each year be a year of love
In which beneath the moment there is joy.
Relentless as the passing years may prove,
So may the lilt of life your spirits buoy,
The gift of love that time cannot destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ97.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
October 19: Happy Twenty-First Anniversary
October 20: Here in the Midst of Happiness
October 21: Eleven Years Is Not So Long a Time
October 22: Happy Twelfth Anniversary
October 23: Happy Fifty-First Anniversary