Vistas of the Past Are All Around Me

February 15, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day.

Today’s poem is about love and memory.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Vistas of the past are all around me,

A gallery of memories long gone.

Love in all its variants surrounds me,

Embracing every scene I look upon.

Now is no more near to me than then.

Time is not a highway but a room

In which all moments mingle, mine again.

Nor can I tell the temple from the tomb.

Enduring through this chaos is your love,

‘Mid memories the thing that is most real.

So may my heart through loss and longing move,

Delivered by a fortune I can feel.

As I roll upon that restless sea,

You are the anchor holding me to me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/vistas.html. For more Valentine’s Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/valentinesdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

February 13: To Ask You to Be My Valentine

February 14: Be My Valentine, My Love

February 15: Vistas of the Past Are All Around Me