March Marches to the Beat of Her Own Drum

 

A calendar poem for March:

 

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

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Buccaneer’s March. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI

 

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Reason Doesn't Travel Well

 

A poem for Ramadan about the weaknesses of reason as compared to faith in a harsh environment:

 

Reason doesn't travel well
Across the desert sand.
Maybe it needs quince to quell
A hunger for command.
Do not think it will survive
A long and thirsty camel ride,
No nutrient near at hand.

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Turning Slowly. By Ugonna Onyekwe. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI

 

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Political Proverbs

 

Some political proverbs for Presidents Day about the dangers for democracy of perfection:

 

POLITICAL PROVERBS

 

Those who'd see democracy's demise
Have little use for compromise.

Those who like their politics strong
Increase their risk of being wrong.

Those who are at the controls
Ought not be trusted with the goals.

Power wedded to perfection
Wins the final free election.

When not one criminal goes free,
We'll know we've lost our liberty.

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Falling Snow. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI

 

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Vast the Possibilities of Fortune

 

A Valentine’s Day poem comparing love to a garden:

 

Vast the possibilities of fortune,

And one the reckoning of choice and chance.

Love’s a garden sown with seeds of passion,

Eden in the sunlight of romance.

Nor ought one see this as a limitation:

The garden is a universe, and fate

Is fertile soil fit for cultivation,

Needing long-term care that cannot wait.

Each universe exists in time and space,

‘Mid miracles and troubles, toil and tears.

So are you my universe, my grace,

Dancing through the cosmos of my years.

As one is One, one’s all that one can know,

Yet love of one’s a garden two can grow.

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Dancing Star. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI

 

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February Knows His Fortune Well

 

A calendar poem for February:

 

February knows his fortune well,
Even in the bitterness of dawn
Breaking in the coldest hour of hell,
Revealing but the worst that must be borne.
Underneath the ice the passions sleep
Ablaze with all the beauty of their burning,
Rendering a richness that will keep
Yet warm within the cavern of his yearning.

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Allégro. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI

 

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Holocausts Are Sui Generis

 

A poem for Holocaust Remembrance Day:

 

Holocausts are sui generis.
One sees in all the same totality.
Lest one think they're not so numerous,
One finds some in Deuteronomy.
Can the annihilation of Sihon,
An utterly explicit genocide,
Under God's command to overrun
Some lands where only Jews might now reside,
Thus stated be aught else? How can a Jew
So soon, so soon, such nightmares still pursue?

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Parzival. By William Rosati. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI

 

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Hatred Has No Color, Creed, or Race

 

A poem for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday about the ubiquity of hatred:

 

Hatred has no color, creed, or race.
All hate, more or less, and thus destroy
The fragile ecosystem of the heart,
Restoring which requires faith and grace.
Each must love for any hope of joy,
Disciplining hate with well-honed art.

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Don’t Look Inside. By Biz Baz Studio. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI

 

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