Happiness Wears Ordinary Clothes

November 21, 2020

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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 twenty-eighth anniversary poem about a couple’s need to celebrate their love:

Happiness wears ordinary clothes,
Appropriate for everyday pursuits:
Perhaps because desire comes and goes;
Perhaps because one gets mud on one's boots.
Yet one must celebrate from time to time
The happiness of ordinary days,
Whittling the wonder into rhyme,
Embracing one's prosaic life with praise.
Now let us sing the words that we would speak,
Then dance to steps through which we merely move!
Years look for the passions of a peak,
Expecting some bright blossoming of love.
If happiness must be a stable state,
Given that it must so long endure,
Here we have a day to celebrate
The choices and the chances of our fate,
Having found a grace we can secure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ98.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
November 16: How Can I Tell You More than I Can Know
November 17: Have an Angel Assigned to Your Account
November 18: Happy Thirteenth Anniversary
November 19: Have Another Look at What You’ve Done
November 20: Heaven Runs a Pretty Good Hotel
November 21: Happiness Wears Ordinary Clothes