July 19, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is faith.
Today’s poem is a poem for the Lunar New Year about how the
beauty of traditional worship can help guide faith.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Lest you leave your longings in the sunshine
Unprotected from night's bitter shade,
Now you may take them on the lunar wind,
Alive to phantoms vivid as your face
Reveling in front of Reason's door.
Nor could your own inventions offer more,
Even those transfigured from your race,
Which, privatized, seem downsized, somehow thinned.
Yet here is all the wealth the past has made,
Each relic well preserved in ancient brine,
A treasure-trove of comedy and grace
Resting where your faith would else be blind.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/lest.html.
For more poems about religion, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html
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This week’s theme: Faith.
July 18: I’ll See You When the Sun Goes Down
July 19: Lest You Leave Your Longings in theSunshine
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