image borrowed from our family album
Nuptial Ultim
“A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet
and two solos at the same time.”--Barnett R. Brickner
Between my wife and myself
we share the wealth of six marriages;
three states of matrimony each,
finding each other late along our journey,
eyes wide open, wild oats sown,
fantasies, mysteries, most of the mistakes
exorcised.
Yet the mythos, the magic, the heat
is prevalent, permanent, & sturdy.
On that day in 1993,
the north and the south
collided,
and as we made contact
and were joined,
we became one entity,
two souls in lock-step
forming the spiritual fetus
of a whole new organism,
man + woman,
husband + wife
united,
commingled, mixed, blended & blessed.
Truth, naked and quivering, streaked
across the face of the millennium
like a crackling Texas lightning bolt,
silver brilliant against a midnight sky,
and I think we were stone-captured,
coupled cosmically, just steel shavings
inexorably drawn to each other’s magnets,
maneuvering magnificently into alignment
on a parallel plane;
Thank God,
as we met
we recognized
each other.
Glenn Buttkus
December 2012
Posted on over at dVerse Poets-Poetics
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17 comments:
those last two stanzas are amazing sir....love the creative imagery...the lighting the stone etched...and smiling at you recognizing each other...yeah thank goodness for that...
Aw that's beautiful... I loved the quote, it's so true... A wonderful poem about marriage, obviously you were bound to find each other.
I'm clapping my hands... Lovely and love, a powerful combo!
nice..sounds like you were waiting for each other all your lives..and then the moment where the stars cross...glad you recognized each other and go that way together now..
oh, that recognition is magic when it happens
love the journeys and the different paths taken then finding each other, really nice. I agree with Brian, those last two stanzas are incredible. Great write. Thanks for sharing tonight.
Wonderful! Thank god indeed :) Still hanging on to round one here...one of the few things I got right the first time! lol Loved this one, Glenn...hope you read it to her!
wonderful and romantically bound
Beautiful look at two characters becoming one. There's hope :)
"Truth, naked and quivering, streaked
across the face of the millennium
like a crackling Texas lightning bolt . . ."
Nice to have one of these in the middle of the marriage and its poem!
Gorgeous write!
" Truth, naked and quivering, streaked
across the face of the millennium
like a crackling Texas lightning bolt,
silver brilliant against a midnight sky,
and I think we were stone-captured,
coupled cosmically, just steel shavings
inexorably drawn to each other’s magnets,
maneuvering magnificently into alignment
on a parallel plane;
Thank God,
as we met
we recognized
each other."
great stanzas...:)
..sweet and touching... so deeply inspired.. excellent!
smiles...
Love the colliding of north and south in 1993. That stanza and the final one I think supreme.
Those last two stanzas are fabulous - and that quote is so true. Told you I'd drop by today :-)
The words and the style are great. I see this very clearly and beautifully. Great poem.
Loved the final two stanzas, as did most of the other people who've read this. :)
Wonderfully warm poem, this...
Cheers,
Joy
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