Poem of the Week

8/2: Heaven Isn’t Easy

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

8/4: Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

Friday, August 3, 2018

Happy Second Anniversary

August 3, 2018

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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 second anniversary poem about how a couple changes slowly together:

Happy second anniversary!

As time wears on, the newness wears away;

Passion turns to pleasurable play;

Preference becomes necessity.

Years are markers towards a transformation

Slow and unobtrusive as a tide

Elevating vessels side by side,

Changing both, but ever in relation.

On this, your second, then, may you rejoice,

Nestled in the chamber of your choice,

Destined by your love for celebration.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

8/2: Heaven Isn’t Easy

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Heaven Isn't Easy

August 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A fifth anniversary poem about the hard work involved in love’s labor:

Heaven isn’t easy. God knows it takes

A lot of work to build a house of love.

Praised be those devoted to love’s labor,

Passing love on to their generations,

Yielding pleasure in return for joy.

For love’s labor’s never lost, but makes

It easier for happiness to prove

Fit for those who would return the favor,

Trading fantasy for brick till the relation

Has roof and walls no wild wind would destroy.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

8/2: Heaven Isn’t Easy

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Happy Ninth Anniversary2

August 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A ninth anniversary poem about passion and love:

Happy ninth anniversary!

A moment in the wind,

Pausing to pay tribute to

Passion’s proper end:

Yielding lifelong love.

No lustful seeker could foresee,

If lust from love unwind,

Not able to enjoy a view

That lights life from behind,

How lovely love would prove!

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

Happy Fourteenth Anniversary

July 31, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A fourteenth anniversary poem about the view forward and back from that day:

Happy fourteenth anniversary!

A saddle on the mountain of your lives.

Pause a moment: The landscape that you see

Peacefully unfolds before your eyes.

Years stretch out like fields beneath blue skies.

For you, the way has turned out steep, but still

On the whole both beautiful and kind,

Ultimately wedded to your will,

Resistant though it might have been at times,

The sort of life which one is blessed to climb.

Every day might equally be such,

Embracing past and future in one view.

Nor would in that case this day mean as much:

The heart could, like an actor, use a cue,

Having lifelong feelings to renew.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

Monday, July 30, 2018

Happy Sixth Anniversary4

July 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A sixth anniversary poem about moving from a youthful to a more mature love:

Happy sixth anniversary!

A moment in the sun!

Pleased to praise the passing years,

Pleased to mark each one.

Yet as one yields one's youth to time,

Singing as one goes,

In time one's love accumulates,

X-ing out the woes

That come with doubt and loneliness,

Here where none need pose.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries