How to Stay Married 40 Years
This was an E-mail of the Day at Dr. Laura’s site–advice I can use, myself!
My husband and I are celebrating 40 years of marriage. People ask us how we’ve done it and we both agree, it’s the morning kiss goodbye. Sounds strange I know, but it’s the time we connect and commit every day and make a silent promise to be there for each other. Here is a poem I wrote about it:
The Morning Kiss Goodbye
By Evelyn G.Breakfast Over
Tie on straight
We meet by the door
Can’t be lateThinking about
What lies ahead
A grouchy boss
Unmade bedsFires to put out
Bills to pay
We need strength
To face the dayThe Goodbye kiss
Don’t rush this time
Smiling eyes
I’m yours, you’re mineTousled hair
Fresh shaven face
My love, my partner
A warm embraceInfusing strength
A daily pact
I’m here for you
You’ve got my backWe are one
A braided cord
A lingering kiss
Courage shoredI love you
That’s really sweet.
That was okay and all. And no offense to whoever wrote it, but I think my poem “The Husband’s Creed” is far superior.
See: https://ruthblog.org/2010/08/20/the-husbands-creed/
A liiiiiiiiiiittle bit stuck on yourself there, Ari. 😉
Excuse me, but if you had the talent and inspiration necessary to write a poem as toweringly awesome as “The Husband’s Creed” I think any failure to brag would be a craven case of false modesty.
Wow.
Both very appealing poems. I quoted the following from Milton at the celebration of the wedding of one of my sons where Adam describes Eve:
…when I approach
Her loveliness, so absolute she seems
And in her self compleat, so well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best;
All higher knowledge in her presence falls
Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her
Looses discount’nanc’t, and like folly shewes;
Authority and Reason on her waite,
As one intended first, not after made
Occasionally; and to consummate all,
Greatness of mind and nobleness thir seat
Build in her loveliest, and create an awe
About her, as a guard Angelic plac’t.
The whole poem (Paradise Lost) is much longer, but I think my daughter-in-law appreciated the sentiment.