It’s September 25th, our five year wedding anniversary.
Carl and I married at sunset under an arbor of daisies. It felt like the last day of summer and the first day of fall. Our family and friends formed a semi-circle around us as we exchanged vows against a candlelit horizon. Pine trees bowed with reverence. The lake reflected the whole moment as a smile.
Each family member and friend stepped forward to offer blessings by tying prayer threads to our wrists and adorning our heads with rose petals that fluttered down to form puddles of love by our feet.
When it was my father’s turn, he whispered the words, “see good in one another.”
Five years later, under the encouraging wink of a half moon, I am filled with understanding from these five words of wisdom.
Inspired by the milestone in our marriage, I woke up today and penned a poem for Carl. I returned home to find an orchid gracefully pointing to a poem Carl had written for me.
For Carl
Bright eyed with the moon
Comical and creative
Soft, sweet night owl smile
For Chintana
Eyes deep like amber
Radiant, mind sharp, heart soft
Beautiful genius
Thirteen years of dating and five years of marriage celebrated by two haikus. Each person a poem. Each poem a practice to “see good in one another.”
As husband and wife, we are the two sides of the same half moon. One of us brightens when the other one dims. Yet the grace of our mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters serve as a constant backdrop. I still think of John in the half moon. I think about his life in the luminous half and his death in the dark side.
The entire cosmos cups our existence. Everything relies upon everything else to be … such is the connectivity and collectiveness of our consciousness.
It is very fulfilling to understand one another in the way of poetry. To love is to live a poetic existence. Having a haiku mind and heart helps a marriage.
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