Sample -- 10th anniversary

Some words of acclaim are in order

A verbalized pat on the back

For two who have artfully travelled

Ten years on the marital track.

They say that what happens in Vegas

Remains there, but facts don’t agree:

What Kelly and Peter began there

Thrives by the beach in O.C.

A Catholic boy in the ad biz

Found surfing when not on the job

Plus one tea-obsessed Jewish food pro

Makes Hibbity Bibbity Cobb.

Her carefully packed healthy lunches

Were key to his slimmed-down physique;

He takes the kids yard-sale blitzing

To let her sleep in once a week.

Their family ties and their children

Are valued above their great passions

For snowboarding, camping and flip-flops 

As all-purpose high-end foot fashion.

A shiny new decade lies waiting

And in it we hope that they find

Happiness, health, love increasing

As much pleasure ahead as behind.

© 2008 Marla Landers-Renouf/Short-Order Verse