June 29, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is the contrast between the holy and the mundane, in
honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which began on June 26, at the end
of the month of Ramadan.
Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman who strives for
holiness every moment of her life.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Alessandra savors solitude,
Looking for connection to the whole.
Each of us is all, and so includes
Such rapture as resides in every soul,
Selfless self, with neither will nor goal.
Anticipating death, she undoes life,
Needing nothing, wanting, wishing nothing,
Delivered from what would engender strife,
Relinquishing all but simple acts of being,
A conqueror of all that's worth the winning.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/alessa.html.
For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html
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This week’s theme: The Holy and the Mundane
June 26: Every Moment Equally Is Holy
June 29: Alessandra
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