March 6, 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 39th anniversary poem about the need for emotional harbors:
Harbors hold our
cravings in their arms
After days out on the open sea.
Passions, sheltered, unrestrain their charms,
Perhaps because at anchor we are free.
Years, like mist, reveal familiar beauties,
The freshness of the newly unforeseen,
Hidden in the diligence of duties
In obeisance to what has been.
Remember, then, the grace that comes with being
The harbor each to hold the other's heart,
Yearning for precisely what you're seeing,
Needing what you cannot have apart.
In celebration of your years together,
Neither circumstantial nor forever,
Take this day to tally up your trove,
Harboring your lust within your
love.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/harbor.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
March 4: Happiness Comes Wholly from Within
March 5: Ten Years! Such a Round, Emphatic Number
March 6: Harbors Hold Our Cravings in Their Arms
