Thank You for the Gift of Understanding2

November 21, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is gratitude, in honor of Thanksgiving, which falls on November 24.

Today’s poem thanks God for allowing us to understand how little we understand.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thank you for the gift of understanding

How little one can hope to understand.

A universe is all we have at hand,

Nothing too confusing or demanding.

Knowledge is like spindrift on the sea

Sitting on the surface of a wave.

Granted one can know how things behave,

Ill-formed to know how they might come to be.

Vast Your Being, beyond imagination!

Immeasurable, of neither shape nor size.

Nor ought one lose one’s sense of adoration,

Gift equal to the gifts of mind and eyes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/than47.html . For more poems about gratitude, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/thanksgivingpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Gratitude.

November 21: Thank You for the Gift ofUnderstanding