Saturday, March 25, 2017

Spring2

March 25, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem is about the sudden beauty of spring.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Spring springs out singing from the womb,
Passionate and prodigal,
Returning in a blaze of bliss,
Improvident, impetuous,
Neighbor's backyard canticle,
Grace bursting grandly into bloom!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/sprin2.html. For more calendar poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/calendarpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring
March 20: Spring
March 22: March
March 24: Felicia2
March 25: Spring2

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Felicia2

March 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem is a name poem for an abused child who has to live through winter in the spring of her life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Felicia has a winter in her spring.
Each day the frost within her meets the sun.
Loving isn't easy when a child
Is tended by a rabid dog gone wild.
Closeness means the torture has begun.
Icy though her heart, it yet will sing
As slowly tears just melted through her run.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/felic2.html. For more poems about child abuse, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/childabusepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring
March 20: Spring
March 22: March
March 24: Felicia2

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two

March 23, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem compares the emergence from grief to the coming of spring.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Death for one ought not mean death for two.
We cannot die of grief unless we will.
Love requires us to love life still,
Lest love be less than life and death are due.
We cannot choose but choose for others, too,
For what we choose does what we are distill,
And open fields with inner sweetness fill,
That those who pass might hope or faith renew.
So may your love for loved ones that remain
Bring you through this season of despair
To some unquiet, sad, but gentle spring.
Emerging from your chrysalis of pain,
May you find a new world blossomed there
With new songs bittersweet that pleasure bring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathf.html. For more poems about death, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring
March 20: Spring
March 22: March
March 23: Death for One Ought Not Mean Death forTwo

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

March

March 22, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem is a poem for the month of March about the rebelliousness of youth.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

March marches to the beat of her own drum,
Angry in the way of eager youth,
Rebelling against what she will become,
Challenging the too-long-frozen truth.
How beautiful, though raucous and uncouth!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/march2.html. For more calendar poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/calendarpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring
March 20: Spring
March 22: March

Monday, March 20, 2017

Your Hazel Green Eyes

March 21, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem is a love poem comparing a loved one’s eyes to spring woods.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Your hazel green eyes
Are like woods on a warm spring day
When leaves have just unfolded
And slender branches thick with sap
Bend under the weight of songful birds.
I look into your eyes and see
A timeless world of sun and breezes,
Of shade and dappled love,
As I gaze from my sunlit doorway.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/yourha.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring
March 20: Spring
March 21: Your Hazel Green Eyes

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Spring

March 20, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which is happening today, March 20.

Today’s poem is about the coming of spring as an infinite moment.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Spring knows well the workings of the wheel,
Past winters past and winters still to come.
Released from time, the moment spreads its wings;
Infinite, it leaves behind all things,
Neither here nor there, nor to nor from,
Grace reborn within what we call real.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/spring.html. For more calendar poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/calendarpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring
March 20: Spring

The Lord Is the Lord of All Nations

March 19, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is national identity, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, which falls on March 17, and Purim, which fell on March 11 and 12.

Today’s poem is about religion and race from the point of view of someone of mixed race.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

The Lord is the Lord of all nations;
I, of all nations, the child.
White and black, yellow, and brown:
All rivers flow into my sea.

I, of all nations, the child
Melded in passionate love.
All rivers flow into my sea,
Joined in the blood of America.

Melded in passionate love,
I turn to those still behind walls,
Joined in the blood of America,
And tell them that love is the Lord's.

I turn to those still behind walls,
White and black, yellow, and brown,
And tell them that love is the Lord's!
The Lord is the Lord of all nations!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thelor.html. For more poems about nationality and race, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/racepoems.html .

This week’s theme: National Identity
March 18: Jorge
March 19: The Lord Is the Lord of All Nations