Memory's an Antidote for Death

June 2, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Memorial Day, which falls on May 30.

Today’s poem is a Memorial Day poem about memory and death.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Memory's an antidote for death.

Each love remembered does not wholly die.

Maybe one thinks loved ones will recall

One’s sacrifice preserved in ritual,

Redeemed by more than meets the buried eye.

In homage do the fallen draw their breath.

All, then, have a stake in memory,

Living in the hope of honor due.

Death might all obliterate, but all

Act with their post-mortem lives in view,

Yet longing to be loved in worlds to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/memory.html. For more Memorial Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/memorialdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Memorial Day.

May 30: Maybe in the Grip of Pain

May 31: Make of Me Whatever You Desire

June 1: Memories Respond to Invitations

June 2: Memory’s an Antidote for Death