May 12, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which
falls on May 14.
Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem about motherhood as a
kind of immortality.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
A mother casts her dreams into the sea;
We, the words sent bobbing towards the sun,
The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy.
Because she must conclude her melody
And fall back to the sweet dark hush of One,
A mother casts her dreams into the sea,
Hoping to cross that wild infinity
And on some infant shore again to run,
The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy
Outside the fiery circle of memory,
The howling surf, the incessant years undone ...
A mother casts her dreams into the sea
And then dissolves into a tapestry,
Her rolling, helpless drift again begun,
The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy
Afloat once more upon eternity,
Once more the alien fury, never done ...
Again, again, her dreams into the sea,
The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy!
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothca.html.
For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Motherhood
May 10: Motherhood Is a Generic Term
May 11: Maybe Every Moment’s Meant to Be
May 12: A Mother Casts Her Dreams into the Sea
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