Forty Years of Marriage Are a Pass

March 3, 2021

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 40th anniversary poem in which the anniversary is a mountain pass on which one can gaze on both the future and the past:

Forty years of marriage are a pass
On which one rests to see the view both ways,
Remembering the valleys left behind,
Taking in the grandeur just ahead.
Yet there is far too much for one to see.


Years of youth must blend like distant brass
Even as love knots the migrant days
And time blows through the moment like a wind.
Regrets and gratitude are here well wed,
So much alike, one could the other be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/40yea2.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.
March 1: How Might a Couple Couple Late in Life
March 2: For Some the Years Turn Out to Be a Blessing
March 3: Forty Years of Marriage Are a Pass