May 3, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is motherhood, in honor of Mother’s Day, which
falls on May 8.
Today’s poem is about how to deal with mixed emotions.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Hard by happiness is always pain.
A child is born in equal hope and fear,
Perhaps because one grieves what one holds dear,
Perhaps because all longing is in vain.
Yet beauty is what mothers stand to gain,
Music none but parents get to hear,
Of which the organ tone is deep and clear,
The best of being, love, that life sustains.
How might one manage well one’s mixed emotions,
Embracing while enduring parenthood,
Retaining the sweet glow of expectation
‘Mid chaos that one knows one must control?
So might one have to rearrange one’s notions,
De-coupling what one wills from what one would,
Allowing love to launder complications,
Yielding slowly to a separate soul.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/hardb2.html.
For more Mother’s Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Motherhood.
May 3: Hard By Happiness Is Always Pain
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