Ralph Sergi Poet Free verse

Love Is As Love Grows

Love  is as love grows
It grows when you raise children 
and laugh and cry
It grows when you overlook
the beauty of a new flower
to the beauty of crushed flowers 
in your memory book
As if to remember what had budded
in your youth
but is still precious as it ages
and sages
are confounded to perceive its presence
but as each day passes
you are bound by faith  if by nothing else
to abide by the changing generations
that define it
Finally, Love is simple
So let us enjoy it before we grow ancient
and fail to remember because 
Love is as love grows

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Ralph Sergi March 9, 2014 at 6:07 PM Thank you, Mary Jo: Good to speak to you again. This is the first poem I wrote on our anniversary and I've been writing poems on each anniversary since.

Eileen Manassian March 4, 2014 at 3:09 PM Sweet. Yes...love goes through different phases and stages but it is still love. Loved the part about flowers pressed in a book. I dry flowers and enjoy their beauty longer. Lovely write. Ralph Sergi March 4, 2014 at 4:16 PM Thank You Eileen: This poem is really the first poem I wrote to my wife on our 31st anniversary and I have been writing a poem each anniversary since as a series.