Melissa

April 14, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is aging: the changes in perspective, health, wisdom, and satisfaction.

Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman entering the early evening of her life gracefully.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Melissa seems made for summer afternoons:

Evening waits as she walks in the long light,

Leaving us open to the honey sun.

Intent on ecstasy, she murmurs tunes

Supple and wild as she flits left and right,

Singing unknowing as she dances towards night,

Adrift in our need, her long white hair undone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Aging.

April 11: Seventy-Four

April 12: Adages of Age

April 13: Sixty-Five

April 14: Melissa