January 7, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday
of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.
In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day,
celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But
the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s
poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.
Today’s poem is about the validity of epiphanies.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Eager for a miracle, one sees
Plainly and precisely as one wills,
Immersed in purposes, plans, goals, needs, desires,
Peering through the window of a dream.
How might one see right through the way things seem,
Adjusting for the light of inner fires?
Numbers measure what the measure kills.
Yet some truths are best planted on one's knees.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/eagerf.html.
For more poems for Epiphany, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/epiphanypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Epiphanies
January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul
January 3: The Meaning of Eternity
January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending
January 5: Aaron
January 6: Epiphanies Come and Go
January 7: Eager for a Miracle
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