Happy Sixteenth Anniversary

October 25, 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 sixteenth anniversary poem about time and love:

Happy sixteenth anniversary!
After all these years, still in love!
Perhaps not more or less, but differently,
Perhaps because we know what time has proved.
Years flow past our bit of riverside
Singing inconsolably of beauty.
In sympathy, we watch the boats go by,
Xeroxing our poems in praise of duty.
There is in home an antidote for time,
Even as love lasts beyond a life,
Each passion pressed into a paradigm
New realized in the grace of man and wife.
The love that lasts is stubborn, tough, and strong,
Having need to need, both shared and long.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ30.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
October 24: Happiness Remains a Choice
October 25: Happy Sixteenth Anniversary