The World Is Not Sufficiently in Order

January 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, which falls on January 28. This year is The Year of the Rooster.

Today’s poem is a Chinese, or Lunar New Year poem for The Year of the Dog, from the dog’s point of view.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

The world is not sufficiently in order,

However much one wishes it were so.

Everyone likes to think that they are loyal,

Yet find that there are times they cannot be,

Even as I’m loyal by design.

All I want and do is by design,

Reducing what disorder there might be,

Offering the hope that, if I'm loyal,

Fortune will be fair, and what I sow

Today I'll reap in time and proper order.

Heroes are the sentinels of order,

Ever vigilant to live just so:

Dependable, consistent, honest, loyal

Overseers of what ought to be,

Given the chaos deep in the design.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thewo4.html. For more poems about the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/chinesenewyearpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Chinese, or Lunar New Year

January 23: Luck Is like a Tide Pulled by the Moon

January 24: The World Is not Sufficiently inOrder