Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The Bunch of Pals who Conspired

August twenty-first
nineteen and seventy-six
I married the man
I’d met in May, set up
on a blind date
by friends who later said
they knew.

My best friend asked
by week two
if he had proposed.
I laughed at her.
The conspiracy had begun
before we were introduced.

We spoke little
the first three dates.
He was terribly shy
and I
thought he was angry.
He kept saying no
till he did get angry.


He was angry that I asked
not at anything about me
or that I’d done. I cried
and his sister-in-law
yelled at him.
I was embarrassed.

We spent a lot of time
with our group, our gang,
that bunch of buddies.
One couple fought loudly.
My guy asked later
that we not fight
like that if we married.

I teased him
and asked what
he meant by if.
But the air was full
of a serious note.
He came back the next
week wanting a date
for the wedding.

He’d told his mother.
I was shocked. But,
in a short month
love had bloomed.
Love real, if not explosive.
Love of the soul and heart.

Now we will celebrate
our thirty third year.
Smiling, we know it has been
a life well played.
A short interval
became a lifetime
of satisfaction.

Joe, my love, my mate.

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Annay Dawson said...

Just have to let you know that the poem was great!
Annay

Shaking Hands Art with Fralins and Friends said...

Thank you Annay, Mike and whoever else has commented since my last visit. I'm tardy again.

I have corrected a typo in the poem that was really bothersome to several and I certainly understand why.

This poem refers to my husband and I as is obvious. I do write religious poetry as well and it seems I capitalized an H in he that was not at the beginning of a sentence or line. Oops.

I appoligize to anyone who was offended by the error.

Glenda