Image credit By Sarah ©2017
Holding his lady.
Married seventy-five years.
On deathbed he lies,
vows honored until the end.
A portrait of love, endures.
By Sarah ©2017
Author’s note: This piece is dedicated to my nanna, 95 years old, and my grandfather “Bill” who passed away in June 2015. They had a truly remarkable and inspiring love; married more than 75 years! I can’t even imagine the bond they shared. Nanna claims he still visits her every night in her dreams, asking her when she will join him 💜💙💚
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 59 – portrait and lady
By Sarah 
what a beautiful tribute, 75 years is difficult to imagine, how very special 😉
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I can’t fathom it. They were an amazing couple still in love after all that time
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oh I have met quite a few elderly couples married 60+ years still madly in love .. I think they had less choices then so had to work on their marriage, now days it’s too easy to divorce ;(
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It beautiful and gives me so much hope I can be like them (…I won’t get to 75years though or I’d be 112! Lol)
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sounds like you waited for the right man so it will go well … quality is far more important than quantity 😉
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Absolutely 😃
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So beautiful. A wonderful tribute.
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Thank you. They were an amazing couple 😊
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Absolutely beautiful. How lucky to have had each other for 75 years. Are these your grandparents?
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Yes, my mum’s mum and dad 😊 thank you!
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Beautiful tribute to a perfect example of a loving couple, seventy-five years is a long time.
Thanks and happy days.
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Thank you 😊 have a lovely day!
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Oh wow…oh wow, oh wow–this is wonderfully moving. I can’t imagine a marriage lasting so long–what a blessing–and that he still comes to her in her dreams….oh my, how lovely!
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Long lasting love is a magnificent thing. Wonderful tribute, Sarah. ❤
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Thank you 😊 how lucky to experience such love ❤️
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don’t change the old for the new
for seventy five years true love
prevailed, a wonderful tribute,
a treasure of a tanka Sarah!
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Thanks so much Mick 😊
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My pleasure 🙂
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Reblogged this on By Sarah and commented:
Reblogging this is memory of my Nanna, who passed at 10pm last night. Together with Bill. RIP Edith
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