October 2, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is pregnancy and childbirth.
Today’s poem is about why children make life worthwhile.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Why is it that a child makes life worthwhile?
Why is hope with each new birth new born?
What deep remembrance, shadowed in a smile,
Brings back the dream whose measured loss we mourn?
Why do we think that life that is to be
Has greater aptitude for being more,
As if we rose not from the self-same sea
To crash in turn against the self-same shore?
Why do we wrap the best of us in song,
The Eden that we left but never lost,
And try to pass that purer self along,
Not counting risk or reckoning the cost?
I do not know, but know that from my womb
Has come a life whose life makes my life bloom.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/whyis.html. For more poems about
pregnancy and childbirth, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/birthpregnancypoems.html .
This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.
September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy
September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord
September 28: I Have Some Information for Your Files
September 29: Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World
September 30: Glad Tidings of Great Joy Are Come to You
October 1: A Child Is the Greatest Gift
October 2: Why Is It that a Child Makes LifeWorthwhile
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