Bluebirds Perch -

Today my parents are celebrating their 50th Wedding anniversary. They are going to eat in the exact same restaurant they ate at on their wedding day 50 years ago in July. To me, 50 years is impressive—whether it be 50 years of marriage or for a small café to be in business. Both require commitment and hard work to be successful.

They would have liked to have been there exactly on their anniversary, but schedules did not work out to make that possible. Instead, they decided to go this month to visit family and eat at the Bluebird Café in Logan, UT.

I splurged and ordered flowers to be delivered to the restaurant for this special day. I also got ambitious and tried to write a poem. The rhyming isn’t that good, but I didn’t want to keep sacrificing the poems meaning to make it rhyme. In a compromise with myself, I settled on the above.

Since it’s the first poem I’ve written since 8th grade (which was a haiku) I didn’t know if I could write one. I approached this as a challenge. I’m sure, from a literary perspective this isn’t that good, but I still think my folks will like it. Hopefully, they feel that their 50 years of family building was well worth it.

It was worth it to me.

Scott