January 17, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is names – what they mean, what they are not capable of meaning, and how well the meaning of the name fits the personality of the person who bears the name.
Today’s poem is a philosophical poem about names and souls.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Names are little labels that
We paste upon a sea.
Are Jack and Jill and Pat and Bill
Really you and me?
You may be Ruth or Jennifer
Or Ghali or Ahmed,
But you are more, much more than any
Word that might be said.
You are the moon and stars, the Earth,
The Universe, and more.
You dance across eternities
And sail beyond all shores.
You have within you all that is
And that shall ever be.
And yet you also are, of course,
Reiko, Ralph, and Bree.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite the poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/namesa.html . For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .
This week’s theme: Names.
Jan. 11: It Was Pure Chance You Got the Name Irene
Jan. 12: Audree
Jan. 13: Dakota
Jan. 14: Patricia
Jan. 15: Gemma
Jan. 16: Raven Marie and Ivey Briana
Jan. 17: Names Are Little Labels
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is names – what they mean, what they are not capable of meaning, and how well the meaning of the name fits the personality of the person who bears the name.
Today’s poem is a philosophical poem about names and souls.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Names are little labels that
We paste upon a sea.
Are Jack and Jill and Pat and Bill
Really you and me?
You may be Ruth or Jennifer
Or Ghali or Ahmed,
But you are more, much more than any
Word that might be said.
You are the moon and stars, the Earth,
The Universe, and more.
You dance across eternities
And sail beyond all shores.
You have within you all that is
And that shall ever be.
And yet you also are, of course,
Reiko, Ralph, and Bree.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite the poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/namesa.html . For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .
This week’s theme: Names.
Jan. 11: It Was Pure Chance You Got the Name Irene
Jan. 12: Audree
Jan. 13: Dakota
Jan. 14: Patricia
Jan. 15: Gemma
Jan. 16: Raven Marie and Ivey Briana
Jan. 17: Names Are Little Labels
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