Elizabeth

July 28, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is summer.

Today’s poem is a philosophical name poem about a gardener reaching for the ideal.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Elizabeth spends summer afternoons

Leaning over roses and potatoes,

In radiant concentration as she prunes.

Zeno's thoughts are less with her than Plato's

As she snips and clips in steeply slanted light,

Blessed alike by tulips and tomatoes.

Each creature yearns to be, but never quite

Touches what it is, as dissonant tunes

Hover at the silent edge of night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer.

July 25: Summer

July 26: It’s Been So Good to Have You as a Friend

July 27: One Late Summer Afternoon

July 28: Elizabeth