For a Year Now We've Been Living Together

April 15, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is for the first anniversary of living together unmarried.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For a year now we've been living together

In something less than marriage, more than friends,

Reasonably happy with each other,

Satisfied to serve our separate ends.

There are no promises, nor should there be,

As we pursue our passions day by day,

Needing only love, which we agree

Need not be guaranteed in any way.

In such a case, there is a case for giving

Very little, just enough to keep

Each even with the common cost of living,

Relating what we sow to what we reap.

So does love die, for love loves not the measure

Allocating carefully its treasure.

Reason may with reason count the cost,

Yet love that is not generous is lost.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

April 14: For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

April 15: For a Year Now We’ve Been Living Together

For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

April 14, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem comparing the anniversary to the peak of a mountain.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For me this year has been a special mountain,

Incandescent on its sunlit peak.

Revisiting its rich, eventful days,

So full of love, I think with joy of you.

There is no darkness on our lovely mountain

As I gaze from this first blissful peak.

Nothing I imagined yields these days:

Needing, wanting, loving, having you.

In earlier years I thought of this first mountain,

Visioning the vista from its peak,

Enwrapped in fantasies in those days:

Ripples in the darkness without you.

So shall I love you on this yearly mountain

As I gaze from its familiar peak,

Recalling the long innocence of days

Yearning for what I now have in you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

April 14: For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

Happy First Anniversary

April 13, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about how love will grow over the years.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happy first anniversary!

A milestone, indeed!

Praised be those whose pleasure serves,

Perhaps, a deeper need.

Years will add a certain weight;

For now, all seems sublime.

Intimacy intimates

Rewards that grow with time.

So will love increasingly

Two separate souls combine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 12, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about how the inner music of love grows richer with time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

First anniversaries replay a tune

In which there is much music yet unheard,

Repeating lyrics, yet not word for word,

Sensing something new and still rough hewn.

Then sing with joy that old, familiar song

And listen for the notes you cannot hear,

Notes that play but to the inner ear,

Notes unfamiliar as you sing along.

In silence underneath your celebration,

Vivid lies the truth of which you sing,

Enduring, as your passion turns to feeling,

Richer, more complex, yet more secure.

So will you sense this sense without sensation

As you let the bells of glory ring,

Rejoicing in the rhythms of love's meaning,

Yielding to what must be still obscure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 11, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about both the beauty and the difficulty of the first year of marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

This first year of marriage has been the best

I've ever known, so deep and rich and full.

I've felt more passion than in all the rest,

Moored at last amidst the tidal pull.

Not that it's been easy. There've been times

When all the world has seemed to come apart:

Anger faces anger, and past crimes,

Real or imagined, lacerate the heart.

Love sometimes settles slowly, like a house

New-built that needs to snuggle in its bed.

When floorboards creak and groan, it's time to douse

The lights and make unbridled love instead!

Love, like air, cannot always be clear;

How sweet to breathe it with you this first year!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 10, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about how the year has enriched a couple’s love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

One year has passed, and still we are in love,

Nor will time undo what we have done.

Even as boughs break and mountains move,

Years enrich what pleasure has begun.

Each moment of our passion and delight,

As clear as sunshine, bountiful and bright,

Remains as longing after it is gone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

Until We Met I Didn't Know

April 9, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about the beauty of the first year of marriage.

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

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know