Happy Fifty-Third Anniversary

November 22, 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-third anniversary poem about how a marriage, like a river, gathers strength from a variety of tributaries:

Happy fifty-third anniversary!
As love flows on, it gathers tributaries
Pouring into the channels of the heart,
Plumes of color drawn from distant mountains,
Yielding, yearning, joining your grand journey.

Flow on, then, with renewed vitality
In which one finds an answer to one's queries,
Finds the whole of which one is a part,
The love that pours through one from distant fountains
Yet is one's bliss, one's passion, and one's beauty.

The love one feels and is flows to the sea
Holding in its arms the earth it carries,
Irrigating fields with skill and art,
Ready still to bear its precious burden
Deep into the delta of its duty.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ99.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
November 22: Happy Fifty-Third Anniversary