Poetry
Seventeen Years! Can You Believe It? I Can't!
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Nov 11, 2023
A seventeenth anniversary poem about love and time:
Seventeen years! Can you believe it? I can’t!
Each year of love’s a longing left behind,
Vast fields of fading memories. Why can’t
Each be etched more deeply in the mind?
No matter. Love’s a perennial. It blooms
To seasonal rhythms, but survives by will,
Enduring. Though a wintry wind consumes
Each blossom, the rhizome blossoms still.
No matter. Fulfillment, like music, unfolds through time,
Yielding moments too beautiful to bear
Even as they disappear, each chime
Alight with love, with longing, with tears that tear
Right through the heart again, again, again,
Still, though never still, embrace without end.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/17year.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .
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