June 15, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.
Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem about the pain and
beauty of the relation between father and child.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Fathers vest themselves in a relation,
And, as we know, relationships can change.
The hot and cold are often in rotation.
Heartache’s not a place one should find strange.
Each love can be a corridor for pain,
Reopening a door that had been closed.
‘Mid need and fear one loves again, again,
Sacrificing more than one supposed.
Do, then, love not for the joy but for
A gift of self that makes one’s being more,
Yielding grace that none but love sustains.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathe9.html.
For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Father’s Day
June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives
June 14: Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood
June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation
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