Poetry request

[resonant]

Tapping into all the Poetry Month enthusiasm with a request: I'm looking for poems about long love. Not new love, not yearning for love that's about to happen, and not bad old bitter marriage-that-used-to-be-love, but established, mature love.

I've been surprised (and rather depressed) at how difficult this is to find.

One poem that I like quite well is The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry. Parts of it don't quite ring true to me -- they sound more like a man talking to his deity than a man talking to his wife -- but I love this:

Our bond is no little economy based on the exchange
of my love and work for yours, so much for so much
of an expendable fund. We don't know what its limits are --
that puts us in the dark.

Comments

[china_shop]

It's a song rather than poetry, but have you heard Tim Minchin's If I didn't have you? :-)

[resonant]

OK, what are the odds? (points at previous comment, placed five minutes earlier)

[china_shop]

Heeeeeee! \o/

(And fairly good odds, because the song is just that good. *g*)

[reginagiraffe]

*highfives*

[china_shop]

*highfives back*

[reginagiraffe]

Storm is another one of my favorite. (*adores*)

[china_shop]

Yes! And Not Perfect. I think Not Perfect was the first one I saw. *looooves* I had to go out and buy his DVD. :-)