These Seven Months That We Have Been Together

July 26, 2020

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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 seven-month anniversary and thank-you poem about the beauty of the couple’s time together:

These seven months that we have been together

Have been the loveliest of all my life.

All moments dance within your balmy weather,

Nor could my heart be anything but blithe,

Knowing I have all that I desire.

You've chosen me, with all the world to choose,

On whom your glance falls like a holy fire,

Undoing all that would such joy refuse.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

July 24: Your Birthday Was the Day We First Were Us

July 25: Twenty-Five Years on the Farm

July 26: These Seven Months That We Have Been Together

Twenty-Five Years on the Farm

July 25, 2020

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 25^th anniversary poem for a farm couple who has stayed true to each other through a hard life:

Twenty-five years on the farm

Will drain the strength out of

Every loud, shrill false alarm

Near drowned out by love.

Through years of hot, dry winds, and through

Years of steady rain,

Fortune has been good to you

In reaping what remains.

For you have kept your first love true

Through much hard work and pain,

Here now to choose again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

July 24: Your Birthday Was the Day We First Were Us

July 25: Twenty-Five Years on the Farm

Your Birthday Was the Day We First Were Us

July 24, 2020

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 poem for an anniversary that coincides with a birthday:

Your birthday was the day we first were us,

And so for me it is a day twice blessed.

I celebrate my having you twice over:

First, that you exist, then that you're mine.

I never felt a love so free and fine,

So much a part of me, I’m but a lover,

So rich and full, it crowds out all the rest,

All time before I turned from me to us.

I am so joyful to be part of us,

To be at home with you and not a guest,

To celebrate this day and not another,

To share with you a common boundary line.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There BeAngels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

July 24: Your Birthday Was Day We First Were Us

Two Years We've Been Together

July 23, 2020

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 second anniversary poem about how to deal with marital ups and downs:

Two years we've been together, and

We're very much in love.

Of course we've had our minor wars,

Yet none would heartfelt prove.

Each time we think: What if else?

A wind goes through our souls,

Rippling through our tangled sheets,

Sweeping out our woes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

You've Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 22, 2020

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 second anniversary poem about what a wife loves most about her husband:

You've been with me two sweet and awesome years:

The best years of my life; that is, so far.

You are my passion and my guiding star,

Whose steady radiance calms my foolish fears.

How easily you wipe away my tears!

How bright you make my days! How good you are!

I love the way you leave yourself ajar,

Letting in my anger till it clears.

I love the way you play with little kids,

A father in the rough, yet soft and kind.

I love the way you laugh with warmth and ease.

I love the way you close your eyes, the lids

Shutting out the worlds you'd leave behind,

Your head upon the pillow of my knees.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 21, 2020

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 .

An anniversary poem in praise of the grace and wisdom of a wife:

To Ellen, lady of such grace

As well might grace a husband's life;

Whose gentle Quattrocento face

Conveys the wisdom of the wife.

As well might grace a husband's life,

She has a way with words, whose wit

Conveys the wisdom of the wife

Obliquely, bit by subtle bit.

She has a way with words, whose wit

Works patiently, as each dawn comes

Obliquely, bit by subtle bit,

Till even fools can see the sun.

Works patiently, as each dawn comes

To bring the blind Earth’s gloom to light,

Till even fools can see the sun

Restore the truths long lost to night.

To bring the blind Earth’s gloom to light,

Whose gentle Quattrocento face

Restores the truths long lost to night?

To Ellen: lady of such grace!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 20, 2020

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 fourth anniversary poem about angels coming to help celebrate the occasion:

For you, let there be angels lost in song,

Oceanic choirs in your sky,

Unified in joy, an ethereal throng

Rejoicing in your earthly love on high!

Yes, angels flock to those on Earth who love,

Each drawn to love like butterflies to bloom,

A fluttering host of pure delight, who prove

Romantically inclined, though we assume

Still baffled by some things they know not of.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song