The Universe Is like a Symphony

October 20, 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 how joy comes from within.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

The universe is like a symphony

Which you can make as lovely as you please.

Your days are just as sunny as your smiles;

Your nights as full of love as is your heart.

Every please and thank you, warm hello,

Act of kindness, generosity,

Word of sympathy, regret, compassion,

Becomes for everyone a source of light.

We are like birds in never-ending concert,

Joining happily in what we hear,

Each in turn the melody, and then

The counterpoint that lends its grace to others.

Joy is our reply to pain and death –

Exuberant, infectious, loving joy

That fills the void with laughter and with music,

That makes a mirror of the faceless deep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/theun2.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