“Second Love,” new poem by Erwin A. Thompson
By Janet Grace Riehl • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Daddy 'n Me
Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past wedding anniversary
Second Love
by Erwin A. Thompson
For the second anniversary of Ruth’s death, May 1, 2006
My first love was like a pansy,
brought too soon from the greenhouse’ sheltering glass.
A late frost took its vicious toll.
That love was never meant to last.
My second love was like a native fern,
nestled gently in a forest glen.
God planted it a hundred years ago,
nobody knows just when.
It weathers out the ice and snow,
the chilling winds that sweep the country side.
It will be the symbol of our love
long after our mortal bodies die.
Janet Grace Riehl is the author of "Sightlines: A Poet's Diary," a downhome family
love story beyond death told in accessible story poems. She's a member
of Author's Guild, registered with Poets and Writers, and widely
published in national literary magazines and several anthologies.
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