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September 12, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is giving, in honor of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, which falls on September 13 and commemorates Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son.

Today’s poem is a number poem about the redemptive grace that comes from giving.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thirty-five donates her time and sweat

Helping suffering others help themselves.

In every act of charity resides

Redemption for the actors on both sides

Through love, which deep, heartsick despair dispels.

Years of giving pass without regret.

For what one gives in solace one will get

In grace, as the good one does abides.

Verities can sometimes pall, and yet

Each selfless act the same sweet story tells.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/35g.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Giving.

September 12: Thirty-Five