There Is a Love So Certain

June 11, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem for a couple getting married after a long involuntary separation.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is a love so certain

It can underwrite all fears;

A passion so enduring

It abides beneath the years;

A yearning so consuming

It's consumed by its own will

To yearn if need forever

For the one its need might still.

How beautiful the rapture

That sustains those long apart!

The joyful inner union

Of the undivided heart.

How sweet yet sad the music

That conveys such loyalty!

The devastated grace

Of the hope of love to be.

And now the mystic moment

Has arrived, and the reward

For all that time of waiting

Shall be gathered in a word.

And life with utter longing

Shall let down its golden hair

That these long faithful lovers

Find at last their pleasure there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

June 7: This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

June 8: You Are the Mirror of My Past

June 9: They Said We’d Never Make It

June 10: To Be a Child at a Parent’s Wedding

June 11: There Is a Love So Certain

To Be a Child at a Parent's Wedding

June 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem from the child of a previous marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

To be a child at a parent's wedding

Is strange, for there's a hint of darkness there.

The past stands just offshore, although we're heading

Inland into cool, fresh mountain air.

The love you two have found is my love also;

Your happiness this day is also mine.

Where your heart leads you, mine will also follow

As more than two lives in this act combine.

So like a sun that burns off morning mist,

Or like a rainbow gracing a blue sky,

Or like the weeping of the newly blessed,

Or like a deep-felt truth that cannot lie,

This moment is far more than we can be,

Joining you to you, and then to me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

June 7: This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

June 8: You Are the Mirror of My Past

June 9: They Said We’d Never Make It

June 10: To Be a Child at a Parent’s Wedding

They Said We'd Never Make It

June 9, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem for the renewal of vows.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

They said we'd never make it,

But now we've come this far.

Today we celebrate our love

And honor who we are.

We had a hard beginning,

Adults before our time.

But growing up together made

Our deepest roots entwine.

You are my life, my love, my hope,

My friend, my world, my song,

The mirror of my unseen heart,

The place where I belong.

And as our one life passes,

Through love we live for two:

A cornucopia of joy

That we this day renew.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

June 7: This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

June 8: You Are the Mirror of My Past

June 9: They Said We’d Never Make It

You Are the Mirror of My Past

June 8, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem from mother to daughter.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You are the mirror of my past,

The future of my dreams,

The hope for what in life may last,

The jewel that time redeems.

You are yourself, of course, no less,

But also you are mine,

The light of all my treasured days,

The gift for which I pine.

Long may we this closeness share,

This place where memories play,

And if our friendship needs repair,

May love reveal the way.

And now that you're to be a wife

With loves and passions new,

May you find in your sweet life

The joy I have in you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/youar6.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

June 7: This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

June 8: You Are the Mirror of My Past

This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

June 7, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem for a second marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

This is a second marriage for us both,

And yet we are the soul mates of our lives.

Sometimes it's a while till love arrives,

Though we may watch it sail along the coast.

Sometimes we fail to understand that pain

Can be a journey to a sunlit shore.

We never know what suffering is for,

Or when we lose, what treasures we might gain.

And so I'm grateful now that I am free

To join my life with yours. I would not change

One moment of my past, or rearrange

The shining chain that brings your love to me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/2ndmar.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

June 7: This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

Getting Married Means You'll Have

June 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem from a child’s point of view.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Getting married means you'll have

Someone's hand to hold,

Even when you're feeling sick,

Even when you're old.

It means when you sit down to eat,

Someone will be there,

So you won't have to tell your day

To an empty chair.

It means that you can have some kids

Just like a mom and dad,

And play with them all afternoon,

Except when they are bad.

It means that when you need some help,

Someone will help out,

Someone always near to you

So you won't have to shout.

But best of all is when it's time

To turn out all the lights:

You won't have to be alone

Those long and scary nights.

So even though you don't have toys,

You don't have to care:

Once you're married you can be

Each other's teddy bear!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem for childhood sweethearts.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Childhood sweethearts share an innocence

That, if they marry, lasts them all their lives,

An early sacrifice that makes no sense,

Save that something beautiful survives.

There is the sense that angels would do this,

A rightness like a rock before the sea,

A hunger for a symbiotic kiss,

For love as pure as it was meant to be.

And so it is for those who make that choice,

Who dare to love so faithfully and long

That each becomes to each a second voice,

Transforming merest moments into song.

How beautiful first love! Yet better still,

A love for life sustained by wish and 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/childh.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence