That Special Something

Written for dVerse Poetics: Something Borrowed,
Something Blue hosted by Dora who invites us to
write a poem using lines from the Victorian rhyme
seen below. This is where the prompt took me,
back to my wedding day ~ June 10, 1972.

“Something old, something new,
Something borrowed, something blue,
And a sixpence in her shoe.”

Fifty-four lovely years ago  
our song began to play,
and something in the way you moved
told me what words couldn’t say ….
not passion only,
not the breathless new,
a very special something waiting,
something that I already knew.

It wasn’t just the falling ….
any heart can fall.
It was the quiet underneath it,
the recognition in the hall,
the sense that I had always been
walking toward this room,
toward the glowing candlelight,
toward you, my handsome groom.

And now the song plays softer,
the years have learned our names,
have mapped the roads between us,
our losses and our gains ….
yet still that something lingers,
unchanged, unhurried, true,
a current running deeper
than anything we knew.

Not borrowed now, not new ….
just ours, worn smooth as a river stone,
the truest thing I ever knew
loving you and loved by you alone.

NAR©2026

This is “Something” by The Beatles (First dance at our wedding)

Poetics: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

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