Because we often respond with the same expressions or questions when separately told something, our sons shake their heads and say, "You're the same person!"

You can consider this my response to the Five Keys to Success open call, too: she's all of them.

Pilgrim, this captured my heart and squeezed. It is the most wonderful tribute to marriage I have ever read. When it's right, it's all right, isn't it? How blessed you are.

Your are a great poet, making words fly off the tongue like honey. Mrs P is a lucky woman!

A marriage beautifully versed! ~r!

Oh, swoon! "How can La Caridad and Motown fashion the same creature?" Ain't love grand? And inscrutable and bizarre and miraculous. Safe travels to your soul mate.

I don't know who is more lucky. Although luck is just a tiny part of it. This is dreamy.Beautiful. Gorgeous. Should be published.

Very well done Pilgrim, not too sentimental, and flow very nicely.
the Yin and Yang of it all. I hope your shared it, it would mean so much I am sure.

I've said this before, but I'll say it again....Mrs. P is a lucky woman. You seem to truly appreciate her and love her.

This is enchanting. rated while enchanted

A feeling of wonder
of hope
of how can such as this be real.
Here's to your muse and love, Mrs P! (It's a bit early so we'll just clink coffee cups, OK?) Hugs to you both.

I do a lot of sighing around here, especially at your posts. they're so emotionally charged, this one particularly. I love how you adore your wife and ponder the dichotomy of attractions of two human beings who analyze life as nearly polar opposites.

I suspect in most matters you two may be closer in reasoning, but I do understand this attraction, being married to an engineer. An emotional artist with a cool engineer is quite a strange match too. And I am well aware of the conflict of approach to anything can send your careening in opposing directions or can be a bond. For me all too often, it is a shoulder I can lean on, as he holds the reasoning powers that I am often not capable of calling up in certain things..

May you hold each other close forever.

Damn, man. Maybe we are the same person. You are one lucky guy.

I'm with Matt. Enchanted. Can barely see through the stars in my eyes.

A lucky woman, Mrs. Pilgrim in the same degree of lucky you are for having her. But I know it's more than luck ...
"You constantly question, probing why and why not;
I accept what is, wondering nothing."

This sounds familiar. Kind of like what we have here ...
Of course your last line says it all.

This is sublime. I love every word.

If I give you some writing paper, would you write a love letter like this to me? This is just gorgeous.

Absolutely brilliant! Refreshing and encouraging. You remind me how beautiful and perfect difference in a marriage really is.
Thanks!

It's all being said before me, Pilgrim! Such love! It does a heart glad. Though I will say this, your children grew under the cover of tremendous, once in a lifetime love. Oh, but were they blessed!

this is beautiful. no one finds this by accident. our hearts search for this. there is talent in knowing when it has been found.

A beautifully crafted love poem, Pilgrim. Truly inspirational; you are both very fortunate.

you can't know how much i wish i had written this. brilliant, pilgrim. and it so elevates what is here for us to read.

Reverent, holy wisdom with faith as its root. Your journey without her would be incomplete. What a tender resolve you both must have to choose the other, choose the together that makes it all happen for you. Lovely. ~R+~

Why not keep the couplets throughout? They support the theme of dichotomy. (I only meddle when I genuinely like something.)

Loved the line about La Caridad and Motown; they're not so far apart are they? Blessings to you both. Love is a beautiful thing. I envy you, Pilgrim.

Fay: I hope this boa of a poem no longer contricts you . . Yes, when it works, wow.

scanner: I'm the lucky one, scanner. Thanks for being so sweet.

Kit: Wasn't the vow for better or verse?

Ann: All of those mysteries, yes. She'll have Number Two to watch after her.

mLee: I like that--"dependent truth"!

aim: Dreamy, but it's still there after I pinch myself. What's not to love with that!

rita: Glad it wasn't sappy; I hate being a sap. And, yes, she's taking it with her.

patricia: Lucky guy, as I've said.

Matt: I always thought you were an enchanted frog!

Elisa: Thanks for listening!

Sharon: Hugs back, kiddo. Thanks!

foolish: It's always good to have another perspective--another way of looking at things. And we do agree on a lot of fundamental stuff. Like she's always right . . . and I have to accept Cuban time . . . and her way is best. Oh, and the sigh? Thank you for saying that.

Frank: Ha! (We'll see who finishes the weekend in first, though . . .)

bell: Did you bump your head, that you're seeing stars?

Scarlett: Both lucky to the nth.

ladyslipper: Sublime sounds . . . wow!

cartouche: I think my dance card is full. Sorry!

next: Vive l'difference!

vanessa: Well, not once in a lifetime--La Senora and I are a lot like her Folks, whom the kids saw up close. They did make a comfortable choice for a family to pop into, though.

Lady D: I knew because she told me . . .

Smithery: Thanks for appreciating the craft.

femme: That's very generous, ma'am. (But you can't steal it . . . )

PW: I cannot imagine that road not taken. It looks like such a barren stretch.

'sBells (hope you don't mind that abbreviation--seems so Shakespearean, that it seems fitting!): Thanks for that question. Immense thanks (and for the estimation it reveals). I wrestled with that a lot because it did seem a violation, but I wanted the body/mind/spirit and that seemed to call for three lines. And I concluded that breaking the pattern would reinforce the contradiction of oneness despite the differences. Having two triplets seemed more balanced. But I'm still not sure that was the right decision.

T Michael: They fit together surprisingly well.

Oh, Pilgrim. You're such a loving romantic. "these holy mysteries" ah, and the last stanza. Your comment to Vanessa reminded me of Mami watching out the window...

Rated - with admiration, and a knot in my throat.

mLee: Yes, I guess she has ownership claims now! It is good to have a back-and-forth on what we do here: Helpful, often, to see how others view the insides of our writing.

candv: Thank you for liking that line, and that stanza. My favorite (although I think the first two lines stronger than the third--I could never quite get that one to my satisfaction). And thank you for remembering Mami looking out the window--that means a lot to me.

Fusun: Thank you for being touched.

"You stare down problems, never irresolute:
I skate with eyes closed and fingers crossed.

You constantly question, probing why and why not;
I accept what is, wondering nothing...

In these holy mysteries.

You hold my heart and pulse my blood.
You are my memory, and what I most remember.

You tend my soul..."

oh my. u make me want to fall in love. again. and this time. flash freeze it with stay forever.

. truly enchanting.

renatta: Thank you for being enchanted. May it happen, as you say.

Um, hm. I've been married twice and well, is this what it's supposed to be like?

This is profoundly beautiful.

To know this exists, now that is a GNS thought. Thank you.

DB: some of us luck out!

Owl: Thank you, friend.

scupper: Thank you, too (though this was GNT: Good News Thursday!).

Ah, a true Soul union, Pilgrim!! I've learned even more about you two with this Beautiful poem!! I see you as Earth and Sky, created together!!