June 30, 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 number poem about someone who, living in
the mundane world, longs for holiness.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Forty-four looks within and listens,
Open to the whispers of the soul,
Remembering retreats, now long ago,
That gave him intimations of the whole.
Years may pass; the longing never lessens.
For such encounters, there can be no goal.
One stops one’s inner time within time’s flow
Until, now free of purposes and passions,
Returned to bliss, one can resume one’s role.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/44d.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
June 30: Forty-Four
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