Chances are

While checking out the massive fields of sunflowers growing nearby, just on our way out of town before we headed for Quebec on our honeymoon, Andrew and I caught a little "golden" inspiration -- and thought about Amy's parents' upcoming golden anniversary. Come celebrate this special couple with us -- in words and images -- at blog.amynelsonhahn.info

Sungazers

Impossible to say,
whether these sun-facing eyes
are those most prized by the artists
of yesteryear -- quite long before
the time the two of you first glanced
each others' way -- but who can surmise
if these fine devices will not
come to my aid. A sun-filled day attended
us, and this day, the field is bursting with love
as are our hearts, replete
and voluminous, catching a nearly
scatterling breeze. One can only
imagine what you two
have begun.
Copyright (c) 2012 Amy Nelson Hahn

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Purple rain

How do we assess, how do we imagine the influences that most affect our lives, that most determine the loves we find? Sometimes it's written on the sky -- and sometimes we have to search within our hearts. Pictures and words, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info -- with love to my new husband, Andrew. More on our journeys, in upcoming blogs!

You send me

into an effervescent dance
and never landing less than
two hands to shake me
loose from my wide-eyed dream;
but you know it's real -- I swear to you,
and in the purple night
I catapult and launch
the stars just where they are
for you, brightest in our minds,
sweetheart, you and I are dancing
as we do in a thoughtless dream --
we're different, and it seems it's true,
you and I are real -- we'll live forever --
send me off a first-class letter saying so.
I never want to miss you
more than a single day.
Copyright (c) 2012 Amy Nelson Hahn

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Generation next

My two nieces, Andrea and Elizabeth, guest-blog and present their finest cartoons for you, mostly ones about their long-haired German shepherd, Vega, and how she gets into trouble. Stay posted for further developments, as I firmly believe the Nelson girls will be the next bloganistas in THIS family! See photos of their cartoons and more about the process, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info

On comedy

What goes up
often comes around;
a smile that drifts through tears
alleviates a frown.
If you can keep a funny face
no matter what the day brings,
you have a gift worth more than gold
despite the winter -- spring.
It may not seem so crucial now,
when everything is bliss,
but years from today your comic sides
will urge, "remember this."
Copyright (c) 2012 Amy Nelson Hahn

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Happily ever after

On July 14, 2012 at 12:30 in the afternoon, Andrew McVeigh and Amy Nelson Hahn became husband and wife. A wonderful celebration with family and friends followed the church ceremony -- please join us at the blogsite in welcoming the newlyweds, and find out news about the honeymoon, coming soon in photographic and poetic form to a blog near you! Scenes from the wedding party and the poem Amy read at the wedding here at blog.amynelsonhahn.info

To My Dear and Loving Husband

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompetence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay.
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let's so persever
That when we live no more, we may live ever.

Anne Bradstreet

Our fleeting wish

Let all the bells on earth be rung...Andrew and Amy are to wed this very Saturday! And a happier couple there could not be. Though they may be moving soon, and leaving their precious Catskills, they save the sorrows for another day and reflect joyfully on the future and on the bloggery that it to come. Join in, and wish them well, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info...

I let you in

And ever since
you have stayed --
a never-changing part of me,
though growing more like one with me.
This thin gold band
completes our lives today,
yet nothing could really bind us
faster than what love has taught.
All the forlorn yesterdays,
none more in store.
And while I cannot promise
a retrenchment of the Golden Age
I can offer at least this hand,
a never-changing part of me,
to lead, to guide, to follow,
to carry on.
 Copyright (c) 2012 Amy Nelson Hahn

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Big downhill racing

Want to see fluffy snowy white hydrangeas in full bloom? And read succulent words dripping with...no, no, no...we don't do that. We just want to tell you how to keep hydrangeas away from deer and stuff. And also that they're beautiful. And how much we love them. What thoughts you may have on your own...well...you may cherish them. Many photos and thoughts, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info -- abiding coolness!

Snowday, July

If you and I
could apprise the milkwhite
fathoms of the starflights
that go alone each night
in honor of this prayer or that love --
why, we'd be quite out of words
for other things, like the strong
celestial branchings and soft crown
devisements of this haberdasher sprig.
No, we'd never say a thing --
if this and you and I knew all there was
to say about the temper of a wasp,
then there was nothing else to be said
but to pass by and hail, and bow down.
 Copyright (c) 2012 Amy Nelson Hahn

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