Pearl Mackie

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actor Peter Gordon presented A Love poem to his wife Alison cushion Every Day for 25 years. He held the letter for her since her death, have His Family and now his poems online.

Peter Gordon has raised The Bar for romantic gestures.

While most of the men think more to do than buying a bunch of flowers, which is Once in a while, go The Extra mile, he wrote over 8,500 poems written over several decades about life and the love he shared with Alison .

The gesture is sweet, both grand and intimate, and The Poems is a remarkable chronicle of the domestic devotion, passion, and bliss form.

If Peter, he was not The Most romantic guy alive, you propose, one of the happiest.

Peter started to write poems in the 1980s, But they became a daily fixture in the year 1990 and remained there until her death of Lung Cancer in the year 2016.

"she was very touched and used to look forward to," he recalls.

"It began as a small note, And Then small poems. I would place it under her pillow, she would come to the bed, under the pillow, give it to me, and I read it to her.

"Then I would give it to her and she would read it quietly And Then fold it up and put it back under the pillow. "

About 340 poems from his extensive archive, the of their daughters, Cassie, a charity content creators, and Anna, a writer who has worked for the succession and the killing of Eve.

Some of The Poems are recited in the accompanying videos of actors Like Julie Hesmondhalgh and Pearl Mackie .

Some are simple and light-hearted:

Others go deeper:

they act Together, as a biography in verse, including the memories of The Moment when Peter was hit by Cupid's arrow, while he was in a game with Alison in Edinburgh in 1973 ()

"she was beautiful", he remembers today. "She was very open in their opinion, which I always admired.

"she was an actor, dressed as I am, so that me - a Very Good actor. She was friendly, sure, in a certain sense, But we were both a little lost when we met. "

As The Family grew, The Poems conveys the satisfaction, of being together in your "" Home in Brentford, west London ,

Alison , Peter, Cassie and Anna At Home in Brentford

Peter, now 87, studied at Rada and performed at the National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company, and has TV and film credits, including oranges Are the Only fruit and Bridget Jones : Edge of Reason.

Alison appeared in the early 1970s sitcom, The shows lovers, among the others, and went on to a successful stage Director and theater educator.

Peter's letter describes the emptiness of being separated, if one of them was away with Work and the excitement of the acceleration to go Home to Alison on the 391 bus:

Peter Gordon in 1990, TV drama oranges Are Not the Only fruit

But it also reflects in his constant struggle for the rounds as an actor jobbing. "I was obsessed earned by the you have enough money to go to The Family and go Home ," he says.

In his poems, he decides there is more in life, however:

It is not just a plain-sailing Love Story - just Like all the other Peter and Alison had their UPS and downs ().

But the arguments were never serious, he says, and poems to write even on bad days took her out of the fight.

Peter, and daughters Anna (left) and Cassie

Peter apparently Alison found snoring. Snoring comes More Than Once - Daughter , Cassie, who typed The Poems , has a favorite line:

"There's a lot about Mama's feet and hair," says Cassie.

"And eyes," adds Peter. "You were perfect. "

Alison 's Blue Eyes -much.

As your bottom.

In the year 2015, The Poems took on a more reflective and troubling twist after Alison was diagnosed with cancer. When she died, he continued to write constantly, if not daily.

In those poems, the void is unbearable. One in which he imagines a walk with her, sums up both the joy of her life and The Pain of absence:

He is only brought Back To reality when the voice says to him:

After Her death, Peter sorted through The Poems in The Shed of The House in which he now shares with Cassie, and The Best thing to go online looking for.

He says: "I read through it again for what we do, and I think some of them Make Me cry, or almost cry.

"make laugh, Some me. There is always a lot of Humor. "

The Poems were published for the First Time on the site, on The Fourth anniversary of Alison 's death last week.

"I want the honor, the love we had, and I think it's worth it to let the people know it," Peter says. "I think it is a good thing, especially in these difficult times.

"When we came up with the idea, it was quite a long, long time before the lock-in. I just thought they were Very Good , and I want them as a memorial for Alison . "

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by Peter Gordon (7/11/1994)

About the middle of the small bathroom window

each ivy-color frame

Leaving The bold obtrusion of the autumn sun.

Leaf jewelry form along the vines

cherry-red shade and delicious green.

There is no compounding of these opposites

Every surface is either red or green, or the bearing

Each individual - But now they look closer and see there!

Some of the leaves a mixture of red and green in a strange shadow.

Subtle and beautiful! Well, you planted

The ivy plant, the everywhere now

Blending contrasting colors, Like love,

In My Life of vine and leaf

And the colors spreads sweet and spicy and dark and light

you Make my days with such an honor

filled With the of November, so catch a bird

As it wheels over the roofs against the sky.

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