Golden Wedding - sonnet
This "video" is the still picture accompanied by a recording of myself reading the poem.
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When we first stood, those fifty years ago,
outside the church together, man and wife,
we had no way of knowing if our life
was due for sun and smiles or tears and snow.
(In the event, we had our share of each.)
When children came as we continued longer,
the highs and lows made our love all the stronger,
and happiness was never out of reach.
Together, then, we've weathered many a storm,
and having lasted now for half a century
I think we're justified to call it victory
to know our love continues just as warm.
Although age may reduce youth's burning passion,
a long, slow smoulder's never out of fashion.
Munia Khan
Oh! I'm so delighted to hear you reciting your wonderful work Paul.I love your voice so much.It sounds younger than I anticipated (smiles..)I thought I would hear an old voice like Sir Anthony Hopkins.Great effort Erik.Congratulation!So sweet of you.
Oh! I'm so delighted to hear you reciting your wonderful work Paul.I love your voice so much.It sounds younger than I anticipated (smiles..)I thought I would hear an old voice like Sir Anthony Hopkins.Great effort Erik.Congratulation!So sweet of you.
Karin Anderson
I have just listened to your voice as suggested above and it is a great to hear your voice Eric and for me it makes the poem more meaningful. You are certainly one step ahead with technology and thank you for sharing your discovery.
I have just listened to your voice as suggested above and it is a great to hear your voice Eric and for me it makes the poem more meaningful. You are certainly one step ahead with technology and thank you for sharing your discovery.
nimal dunuhinga
It's really beautiful and I would like to marry again?
It's really beautiful and I would like to marry again?
Lillian Susan Thomas
very beautifully written, I am full of admiration for anyone who can pull off a sonnet, and this one shows what it can be in the hands of a true word craftsman . I enjoyed the subtle rhymes, (every line doesn't come to a full stop so the rhyme is slightly hidden in the flow of words and ideas) but bringing a sense of order, completion and symmetry to this piece. I also enjoyed hearing you read it, your voice added another dimension of pleasure to it.
very beautifully written, I am full of admiration for anyone who can pull off a sonnet, and this one shows what it can be in the hands of a true word craftsman . I enjoyed the subtle rhymes, (every line doesn't come to a full stop so the rhyme is slightly hidden in the flow of words and ideas) but bringing a sense of order, completion and symmetry to this piece. I also enjoyed hearing you read it, your voice added another dimension of pleasure to it.
Susan P. Bagley
I love the last line. It completes this verse, adds lightness and yet it conveys so much about your feelings. A great thing to be able to convey passion with humor. Susan
I love the last line. It completes this verse, adds lightness and yet it conveys so much about your feelings. A great thing to be able to convey passion with humor. Susan
patspoems
How did I miss this beautiful sonnet before. A very belated congratulations and many many more years of love and happiness together. I loved the poem especially the last three lines....... Pat
How did I miss this beautiful sonnet before. A very belated congratulations and many many more years of love and happiness together. I loved the poem especially the last three lines....... Pat
seema chowdhury
Congratulations, May God bless you both and keep you happy always and forever.
Congratulations, May God bless you both and keep you happy always and forever.
Kesav V Easwaran
Well written sonnet, Paul...a nice tribute to married life's love and harmony
Well written sonnet, Paul...a nice tribute to married life's love and harmony
Elena S
Yes, dear friend a most important victory, you've got to win best ticket of life's lottery : 50 years of love and care to go on for more and more may we all dance and eat a diamond wedding cake , please, try save me a slow valse, 'till then please let us wish you great happiness , great time the best from now for you to come! Lovely heart warming poem, thank you .
Yes, dear friend a most important victory, you've got to win best ticket of life's lottery : 50 years of love and care to go on for more and more may we all dance and eat a diamond wedding cake , please, try save me a slow valse, 'till then please let us wish you great happiness , great time the best from now for you to come! Lovely heart warming poem, thank you .
heterodynemind
Beautiful piece here (and gives me hope..for growing older; though I am already quite old enough for most things..hehe)
Beautiful piece here (and gives me hope..for growing older; though I am already quite old enough for most things..hehe)
LightH2O
Such memories and a well deserving couple... well written!
Such memories and a well deserving couple... well written!
stevenstirk
Yes wonderful. The further we go, the more street cred we acquire, and the more we work and blend as one being.
Yes wonderful. The further we go, the more street cred we acquire, and the more we work and blend as one being.
Jenny Gordon
Sweet! The concluding couplet provokes such a smile! Delightful, and such a beautiful reflection.... it's an excellent tribute.
Sweet! The concluding couplet provokes such a smile! Delightful, and such a beautiful reflection.... it's an excellent tribute.
Munia Khan
I tell you the final couplet was the quote of the year 2010!! A very powerful work Erik.Every matrimonial bond should be felt like this.Excellent sonnet.
I tell you the final couplet was the quote of the year 2010!! A very powerful work Erik.Every matrimonial bond should be felt like this.Excellent sonnet.
Karin Anderson
A simply wonderful Sonnet with that steals my heart with its golden glow of love that has sustained the ups and downs of life. It certainly is a victory and I love how you conclude with 'a long slow smoulder's never out of fashion'.
A simply wonderful Sonnet with that steals my heart with its golden glow of love that has sustained the ups and downs of life. It certainly is a victory and I love how you conclude with 'a long slow smoulder's never out of fashion'.
This is deliciously entertaining.