Poem of the Week

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

Friday, June 9, 2017

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.

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 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.

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 9: They Said We’d Never Make It

Thursday, June 8, 2017

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.

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

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

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.

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