Thirty-Five8

April 19, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment in honor of Earth Day, which falls on April 22.

Today’s poem is a number poem about how nature reflects the deepest inner experience.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thirty-five is on a long plateau,

Hiking through deep woods and sun-drenched fields.

It is a lovely path he follows well,

Reading signs no alphabet can spell,

The wordless whispers that his woodcraft yields.

Yet he knows he still has far to go.

For him, the journey is the only end,

Intense and vivid, mystically at peace,

Vistas of the heart at every bend,

Echoes of the soul that never cease.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/35h.html. For more poems about the environment, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/environmentalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Environment

April 17: From Desert to Forest, from Sun to Shade

April 18: Twenty-Eight5

April 19: Thirty-Five8