The Persimmon Tree (Poems by Neil Stewart McLeod Book 4)

Touching poems about life in a trans-millennial family growing up in Los Angeles in the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st. Here are captured events in what is becoming a rare commodity, the traditional nuclear family. There is a range of events and experiences which are common to nearly all families. Couples meet, they decide to get married, babies are born and grow up so fast, and are off to college in the blink of an eye. In addition parents may pass away too soon. Through all of it we share emotions and memories which if captured in verse may ring just as true for the reader as they were for the author. We try to be good lovers and express our love in novel ways. We are amazed when we see a new born’s tiny hands, and ponder how our children will grow up. We have pets, and we may even build a tree house.

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Three Bands of Gold

My wife and I wear rings of woven bands of gold.

I never take mine off.

I gave my love three bands of gold 

On a summer's day so fair,

All bound they were and intertwined

As braids of her golden hair.

 

Three bands I gave to my sweet love

Each one to pledge my troth,

To love, to cherish, have and hold

No matter where we rove.

 

Each golden band I gave to her

Will ever a symbol be,

To love with body, heart and mind

The flower she gave to me.

 

And summer days will come and go

And time will play his part,

But nought will dull the luster

Of the love within my heart.

 

And on my hand I wear a band

Of three wound rings of gold,

They 'mind me of my promise to

The love I dearly hold.