How Can One Moment Hold the Work of Years

February 4, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is an anniversary poem from children to parents.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How can one moment hold the work of years,

As if time could be gathered in a sea?

Perhaps one might sail upon one's tears,

Pensive in the drift of memory.

Yet now is time to celebrate your love

After many years of loving well.

Now we, whose lives your hearts and spirits move,

Need our joy and happiness to tell.

In your love is our ancestral home.

Vistas in our hearts come from your fields.

Eden rests with you, that we may roam

Rich in dreams that early sunlight yields.

So may you savor this, your special day,

And sweet, sweet memories the time delay,

Recalling with fresh wonderment the life

You've shared so long in love as man and wife.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

February 1: Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

February 2: Fifty Years Is a Long Time to Be Married

February 3: How Wonderful to Have You in My Life

February 4: How Can One Moment Hold the Work of Years

How Wonderful to Have You in My Life

February 3, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is an anniversary poem expressing the joy of married love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How wonderful to have you in my life!

All my feelings whirl about my heart!

Perhaps I can't contain that I'm your wife;

Perhaps I don't know how or where to start.

You have me always, no matter what you do:

A gift I give my gift, joyously.

Nothing means as much to me as you;

Nothing else so fully makes me, me.

If I had everything that God could grant,

Very little there would bring me peace.

Enwrapped in you is everything I want:

Rapture, warmth, affection, sweet release.

So strong my love! So happy, sure, and strong!

A thousand thousand years would not seem long!

Reason tells me everything must end,

Yet you will always be my lover-friend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

February 1: Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

February 2: Fifty Years Is a Long Time to Be Married

February 3: How Wonderful to Have You in My Life

Fifty Years Is a Long Time to Be Married

February 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a 50^th anniversary poem in which one must still make the daily choice to love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fifty years is a long time to be married,

Interweaving lives so thoroughly

Fortune seems like fate. Love seems to carry

The monumental weight of destiny,

Yet love is still a choice since one is free.

Years and generations notwithstanding,

Each day of marriage one must choose anew,

As love long lived in is no less demanding,

Requiring one to make one life of two,

Sharing one’s bright being through and through.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/50yea5.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

February 1: Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

February 2: Fifty Years Is a Long Time to Be Married

Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

February 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a thank-you anniversary poem from a pregnant wife.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thank you for being the love of my life,

Half of the child asleep in my womb,

A husband whose husbandry made of his wife

Near as blissful a blossom as ever did bloom!

Knight of my nights and dance of my days,

Yours are the eyes in which I am most me.

Only with you will I wend through my ways

Unburdened as heaven, unscathed as the sea!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/than19.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

February 1: Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

Here We Have Two People Much in Love

January 31, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a 9^th anniversary poem about the need to say I love you.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here we have two people much in love,

A fact not celebrated every day,

Perhaps because more words would less convey,

Perhaps because more fuss would little prove.

Yet love’s a word one should make time to say.

Now’s the time to celebrate your love

In annual honor of your wedding day,

Needing just this moment to convey

The feeling that the everydays will prove,

Here, now, when the words are there to say.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/herew5.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

Until We Met I Didn't Know

January 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about happiness realized.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Until we met I didn't know

How light a heart could be;

How, chained to one by bonds of love,

I still could feel so free.

I didn't realize that my dreams

Could ever be so real;

Or when I had all I could want,

Exactly how I'd feel.

This year of love has brought me through

A long-awaited door:

Were angels parked along our skies,

I could not love you more.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 29, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is an 11^th anniversary poem in which the day becomes a still lake mirroring the couple’s love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happy eleventh anniversary!

All those years distilled into one glass!

Praised be those who will the things that last,

Pausing to renew them annually!

Years are music to which all must dance,

Ever changing, ever just the same,

Lending love a moment that remains

Embedded in the rhythms of romance.

Volumes can be captured in a word;

Empires, in a logo lifted high.

Nestled in this moment is the sky

Trembling, as two lovers might observe,

Heaven in one blue, reflective eye.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ82.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary