Fear Not, for Love Is All Around You

June 11, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which is celebrated on June 17^th.

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A Father’s Day poem about the love that underlies all close relations:

Fear not, for love is all around you,

All you see and feel, your light and air.

The passion and the joy of it surround you,

However much, or not, you know it’s there.

Even in the darkest of your days,

Raw anger, disappointment, fierce frustration,

‘Mid those whose frailties their love betrays,

Still, love configures every close relation.

Destiny comes dressed at times to kill,

And willing it takes every ounce of will,

Yet love’s the bloom in every obligation.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

6/11: Fear Not, for Love Is All Around You

Melanie

June 10, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is portraits of women.

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

A name poem for Melanie, a woman whose love is for God:

Melanie is always deep in love,

Even more so when she is alone.

Love of God is like a quiet lake,

A heart within her heart no heart can break,

Nor passion, pain, nor solitude remove.

In her is beauty of which all partake,

Easy as breath, dependable as stone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

6/4: Aimée

6/5: Maggie

6/6: Viridiana

6/7: Amalia

6/8: Lorraine

6/9: Abby

6/10: Melanie

Abby

June 9, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is portraits of women.

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

A name poem for Abby, a woman who has the bearing of a queen without the cause:

Abby is a queen without a country,

Blessed and cursed by destiny to be

Bereft of title, subjects, power, bounty,

Yet reigning in each word like royalty.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

6/4: Aimée

6/5: Maggie

6/6: Viridiana

6/7: Amalia

6/8: Lorraine

6/9: Abby

Lorraine

June 8, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is portraits of women.

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

A name poem for Lorraine, a woman who accepts equally the good and bad in life:

Lorraine is sovereign of her willing heart.

Of her pain she weaves a tapestry of flowers,

Revealing alike her love and joy and grace.

Remembrances of hopes she long had grieved

Are now among the gifts she has received,

Inseparable from those she would embrace.

No way can she divide her sea of hours:

Each breath sustains a whole and not a part.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

6/4: Aimée

6/5: Maggie

6/6: Viridiana

6/7: Amalia

6/8: Lorraine

Amalia

June 7, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is portraits of women.

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

A name poem for Amalia, a woman who knows the secret of happiness:

Amalia is happy, though life can be sad,

Making harsh words into rhythm and rhyme,

A friend whose sweet smile might make a tear laugh,

Loosen a longing, cut sorrows in half,

Impose on abuses a bright rainbow sign

As she returns good for all that is bad.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

6/4: Aimée

6/5: Maggie

6/6: Viridiana

6/7: Amalia

Viridiana

June 6, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is portraits of women.

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

A name poem for Viridiana, a woman whose beauty, like that of most of us, is mainly unseen:

Viridiana is a vast blue ocean

In which ten thousand treasures lie unseen.

Rays glide like intimations in slow motion,

Intent on meaning more than they can mean.

Deeper still are jewels that wait for sunlight,

Iridescent on their beds of bone.

Awash in a white innocence like moonlight,

No grace can be perceived till it, unknown,

Awakens with the clarity of stone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

6/4: Aimée

6/5: Maggie

6/6: Viridiana

Maggie

June 5, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is portraits of women.

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

A name poem for Maggie, a woman who is unaware of her goodness:

Maggie knows no end to her travail

As she finds little solace for her sins.

Giving far more than she has received,

Giving far more than she has believed,

In her there is no sense where grace begins

Even as she lives behind its veil.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

6/4: Aimée

6/5: Maggie