There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

June 3, 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 the saving grace of grief.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is in grief a saving grace,

A melody of love

So beautiful no angel could

A mourner's heart so move.

The pain is just a measure of

The value of the loss,

A gift that will remain a gift,

For life can be no less.

The love's not lost, nor will it be

Eroded by the wind,

But will become the soil in which

You plant new seeds each spring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ther35.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

June 3: There Is in Grief a Saving Grace