Some Sing Silently, Which Is All Right

October 22, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is joy.

Today’s poem is about the need to sing throughout one’s life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Some sing silently, which is all right.

The point is just to sing, aloud or no.

Music dances on the edge of night,

Turning into grace one's weal or woe.

So sing, no matter in a minor key,

And make of grief a monument to love.

For loss would not be loss unwillingly,

Although the pain excruciating prove.

Take from life the only thing that lasts –

Its music, which remains within the heart.

Gather up your sweet and bitter pasts

And sing with passion, if with little art.

So may your days and nights be filled with song,

And music keep your love for living strong.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Joy.

October 17: Sing, My Loved One! Sing of All the Glory

October 18: Grace

October 19: There Is No Substitute for Lifelong Longing

October 20: The Universe Is like a Symphony

October 21: Hooray! Hooray! The Time Has Come

October 22: Some Sing Silently, Which Is AllRight