Fortieth Poems - Poems about Fortieth

Through the universe our souls would travel, Trying love’s mysteries to unravel. A miracle of Love would come to be. When I first saw you and you first saw me. In you I saw hope, A lovely rainbow, You saw a man that could be your hero. In just six months we became man and wife. We knew we’d have...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s “Fortieth Legal” by T. Wignesan (From: The Legal Poems. Colne: Pub. by Robert Bank at the Arrowspire Press, 1985, 39p. Here’s an extract from the blurb by Allen Fisher, dated December 1985: “They record a cultural malaise where unjust, intolerant and exploitative power confronts the confidence of each personal movement. In this effort to...

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Starting with first I climbed Initial steps followed all blind Quicker I paced to find Fun and Frolic to bind Growing in body and mind Longing Life’s purpose, I grind Forty you turn this kind Party now leaving all behind...

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Ageless woman lies alone. Builds her own fires amid perfumed air, blending inside warmth with outside chill. Pretty things surround a rarely-shared bed. Hoping for a dream-filled sleep, she stares into flames then the crystal stars. Loneliness drops gently to a cold pillow, as her skin burns hot, while facing long-held beliefs turned inside out by a man-child knowing so much and too little. He called forth a girl with longings strongly...

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Friends and family have come together on this very special day, To join in a celebration of love that has forever stayed! Forty years ago, Danny took Opal's hand into his, And made a commitment to in love to forever be true, A ceremoney was held in front of God and family Vows were made, two -- said "I do" It...

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