Clear Away the Cobwebs from Your Eyes

October 14, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is discovery in honor of Columbus Day, which was celebrated on October 9.

Today’s poem is about the beauty of a life of change.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Clear away the cobwebs from your eyes --

Old ways of thinking, doing, wanting, dreaming!

Learn that present truths are future lies,

Undone by what is now well past redeeming.

Make of life a vast experiment

Blessed by passion, toil, terror, pain,

Unafraid to scuttle what you meant,

Sure only that no failure is in vain.

Do this, and you will have a chance to be

A sailor at the edge of what you see,

Yet yearning for what no one can attain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Discovery

October 9: Can One Ever See What Lies Beyond

October 10: Care to Come with Me to Outer Space

October 11: Challenging the Veil Does Not Come Cheap

October 12: Changes Find Their Agent in Obsession

October 13: Chasing the Horizon

October 14: Clear Away the Cobwebs from Your Eyes