Could We Have the Clarity of Fate

October 15, 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 mystery of what lies just over the horizon.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Could we but have the clarity of fate

Or see the future as we do the past,

Little would we crave the mystery

Unknown to those who know what lies ahead.

Mountains make horizons definite,

Blocking off infinity, the last

Unbroken wave upon this solid sea,

Singing songs that we have long since heard.

Do, then, those few sailors celebrate,

Alone amidst the watery wilderness,

Yet seeking grandly what it is to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/couldw.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

October 15: Could We But Have the Clarity of Fate