Poem of the Week

11/21: Here We Have a Couple Quite Well Suited

11/22: Here’s a Sonnet for Your Anniversary

11/23: The Fortunate Have More to Thank than Fortune

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Here's A Sonnet for Your Anniversary

November 22, 2019

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 fifteenth anniversary poem about how such a poem might be written:

Here’s a sonnet for your anniversary,

A little poem to brighten up your day,

Pleased to be considered more than cursory,

Pleased to be perused along your way.

Yet tuneful words are sometimes out of tune:

From a distance one applies one’s art

In all good faith to what one must assume –

Feelings that one conjures in one’s heart.

There in the fiery cauldron of one’s love

Emotions can be hammered into grace,

Each with little heft and much to prove,

Now situate where form and sense embrace.

Then off the tiny package goes to you,

Hoping it’s both beautiful and true.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

11/21: Here We Have a Couple Quite Well Suited

11/22: Here’s a Sonnet for Your Anniversary

Here We Have a Couple Quite Well Suited

November 21, 2019

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 http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A twelfth anniversary poem poem about how married love can make the sacrifices of a life pursuing social change easier to bear:

Here we have a couple quite well suited

As they travel on a single path,

Pleased to share a passion deeply rooted,

Pursuing change through complementary crafts.

Yet change is never easy, and the toll

Taken over years of sacrifice

Would perhaps have far outstripped the goal,

Except that love reduced the labor’s price.

Love makes life a joy and eases toil,

Frees one to escape to happiness,

Tempers tears with sweets that else would spoil,

Heals the anguished heart with tenderness.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

11/21: Here We Have a Couple Quite Well Suited

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Here's a Bit of Happiness

November 20, 2019

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 http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A twenty-seventh anniversary poem about the beauty of watching married life go by:

Here’s a bit of happiness,

A moment brief but bright,

Placed upon the edge of time,

Perched upon the night.

Years pass by like sailing ships,

Tall and stately, while

We watch from the water’s edge,

Exchanging a quick smile.

Nothing is more beautiful

Than being here with you,

Yearning for the love we share,

Savoring the view.

Eternity is like that:

Vastness tucked within

Each unsuspecting moment,

Neither kith nor kin.

This is our forever,

Here beside the wind.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Three Years Together! And Yet How Much More

November 19, 2019

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 http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A third anniversary poem about how time matures marital love:

Three years together! And yet how much more

Our love has grown, and blossomed, and matured,

Restoring what commitment can restore

In a world where nothing is assured.

Choices are the children of our needs,

Hard put to long survive on grit alone.

As the time we made our choice recedes,

Roots reach into soil that once was stone.

Days turn into months, and months to years.

A moment is the handiwork of time.

Now is sculpted by past joys and tears,

Defined by love in ways we can’t define.

Passions come and go; love remains,

A choice that wisdom proves and need sustains,

Turning toil to dance and truth to wine.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

Sunday, November 17, 2019

Here Is All the Heaven One Might Hope

November 18, 2019

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 http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A ninth anniversary poem about the need to cope with the heaven of a good marriage:

Here is all the heaven one might hope,

A cornucopia of circumstance.

Praised be those who can with heaven cope,

Pleased with each day’s blessings in advance.

Yet there are those who look at life askance.

Nor is heaven anywhere but here –

In your love and gentleness of heart.

None who dwells there happily need fear

The pain that tears self-centered souls apart,

Hard put to find content in life or art.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries