Savor the Sweet Taste of Simply Being

October 23, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about the joy of simply being alone with oneself.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Savor the sweet taste of simply being,

Indulging in the luxury of rest,

X-ing out the voices that complain

That doing something useful might be best.

Yet what could be more useful and more freeing?

Feel the quiet ecstasy of seeing.

Open up a room within your breast,

Untenanted but for a silent guest,

Returned because you are alone again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Joy.

October 17: Sing, My Loved One! Sing of All the Glory

October 18: Grace

October 19: There Is No Substitute for Lifelong Longing

October 20: The Universe Is like a Symphony

October 21: Hooray! Hooray! The Time Has Come

October 22: Some Sing Silently, Which Is All Right

October 23: Savor the Sweet Taste of SimplyBeing