October 10, 2013 #757
Dear Subscriber:
This week’s poem of the week is a poem for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice.
You can hear me read the poem and listen to the music for it at my site by going to http://www.poemsforfree.com/week.html.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Even as you sacrifice yourself,
In love with love and gratified to give,
Dancing 'cross the ancient inner gulf
Athwart the plain on which each soul must live,
Long-borne burdens lighten into prayer,
Acts of worship meant as acts of care,
Done freely out of gratitude and grace,
Hard – yes, hard – and far more than your share,
And still a gift no pleasure can replace.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Watch me recite the poem on YouTube at http://youtu.be/qSDzdMWsiPw.
Dear Subscriber:
This week’s poem of the week is a poem for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice.
You can hear me read the poem and listen to the music for it at my site by going to http://www.poemsforfree.com/week.html.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Even as you sacrifice yourself,
In love with love and gratified to give,
Dancing 'cross the ancient inner gulf
Athwart the plain on which each soul must live,
Long-borne burdens lighten into prayer,
Acts of worship meant as acts of care,
Done freely out of gratitude and grace,
Hard – yes, hard – and far more than your share,
And still a gift no pleasure can replace.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Watch me recite the poem on YouTube at http://youtu.be/qSDzdMWsiPw.
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