Fifty Years Is a Long Time to Be Married

February 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a 50^th anniversary poem in which one must still make the daily choice to love.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fifty years is a long time to be married,

Interweaving lives so thoroughly

Fortune seems like fate. Love seems to carry

The monumental weight of destiny,

Yet love is still a choice since one is free.

Years and generations notwithstanding,

Each day of marriage one must choose anew,

As love long lived in is no less demanding,

Requiring one to make one life of two,

Sharing one’s bright being through and through.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/50yea5.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

February 1: Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

February 2: Fifty Years Is a Long Time to Be Married

Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

February 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a thank-you anniversary poem from a pregnant wife.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thank you for being the love of my life,

Half of the child asleep in my womb,

A husband whose husbandry made of his wife

Near as blissful a blossom as ever did bloom!

Knight of my nights and dance of my days,

Yours are the eyes in which I am most me.

Only with you will I wend through my ways

Unburdened as heaven, unscathed as the sea!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

February 1: Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

Here We Have Two People Much in Love

January 31, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a 9^th anniversary poem about the need to say I love you.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here we have two people much in love,

A fact not celebrated every day,

Perhaps because more words would less convey,

Perhaps because more fuss would little prove.

Yet love’s a word one should make time to say.

Now’s the time to celebrate your love

In annual honor of your wedding day,

Needing just this moment to convey

The feeling that the everydays will prove,

Here, now, when the words are there to say.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/herew5.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

Until We Met I Didn't Know

January 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about happiness realized.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Until we met I didn't know

How light a heart could be;

How, chained to one by bonds of love,

I still could feel so free.

I didn't realize that my dreams

Could ever be so real;

Or when I had all I could want,

Exactly how I'd feel.

This year of love has brought me through

A long-awaited door:

Were angels parked along our skies,

I could not love you more.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/until.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 29, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is an 11^th anniversary poem in which the day becomes a still lake mirroring the couple’s love.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happy eleventh anniversary!

All those years distilled into one glass!

Praised be those who will the things that last,

Pausing to renew them annually!

Years are music to which all must dance,

Ever changing, ever just the same,

Lending love a moment that remains

Embedded in the rhythms of romance.

Volumes can be captured in a word;

Empires, in a logo lifted high.

Nestled in this moment is the sky

Trembling, as two lovers might observe,

Heaven in one blue, reflective eye.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

Tarrah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away

January 28, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is dance, used metaphorically.

Today’s poem is a name poem about the death of two children in which the dance is not yet over.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Tarah and Serrin have not passed away.

A dance is not over when dancing is done.

Remembering them is like feeling the sun

As the moon turns to silver the black-bordered bay.

How can one ferret out words that might say

All the truth of the truth that two children are gone?

Not just the meaning but also the song,

Deepening what no dissent can delay.

So may we linger with them for a while,

Each moment a moment of beauty and pain,

Restoring a sense that makes no sense at all.

Reason alone cannot sponsor a smile.

In faith and desire we see them again

Nearby, still dancing beyond a glass wall.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/taraha.html. For more poems about death, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Dance, Used Metaphorically

January 22: Kaylee

January 23: Death Can Also Be a Dance

January 24: Dinosaurs Will Dance All Day

January 25: It All Went Far Too Quickly

January 26: So Shall the Changing Seasons Mark the Year

January 27: Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill

January 28: Tarah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away

Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill

January 27, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is dance, used metaphorically.

Today’s poem is a love poem about a love that needs to dance.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Our love has slowly gone downhill,

Heavy with mundane demands,

The dregs of days spent dutiful

While hunger goes to sleep unfed.

We love each other still, of course,

But love is listless, fretful, tired,

Pining for the potent word

That comes from angels in the heart.

Oh, say it, Love, and I will, too!

And time will wait for us to dance,

Touched by one another's grace

To give what we so long have sought.

There is a passion undismayed

That lives throughout the long, gray days

Of work and worry, knowing that

Our patient love awaits our will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/ourlo3.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Dance, Used Metaphorically

January 22: Kaylee

January 23: Death Can Also Be a Dance

January 24: Dinosaurs Will Dance All Day

January 25: It All Went Far Too Quickly

January 26: So Shall the Changing Seasons Mark the Year

January 27: Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill