Monday, May 1, 2017

Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 2, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is acceptance.

Today’s poem is a number poem about how one might shape the music of one’s fortune.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fortune is like music minus one:
One adds one’s voice to what one has been given.
Remember that, in either rain or sun,
The part one plays should be by beauty driven,
Yearning that will one’s whole session run.

So might one’s music mingle pain and joy,
Engaged in harmony that heals the heart,
Vested in what will one’s loved ones buoy,
Embracing truth with all one’s well-honed art.
Nor need one’s fate one’s happiness destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fortu4.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Acceptance
May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

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