August 14, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is time.
Today’s poem is about how through the imagination one might
step out of time into forever.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Forever is like getting off a train:
Outside the landscape listens, holds its breath;
Racing hedges stop, the mountains pause,
Trees wait on the wind, as still as death.
Yet far off, a whistle sounds again.
So may we, though trapped within our motion,
Imaginatively step beyond its laws:
X's on the surface of an ocean.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose
for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/foreve.html.
For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Time.
August 8: Forty-Eight
August 9: Bless These Family Gatherings
August 10: The Universe Is One of Many
August 11: The Los Angeles of 1958
August 12: The Past Is Never Over
August 13: Eventually, Memories Settle Down
August 14: Forever Is like Getting Off a Train
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