By the Tulips

November 16, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about the beauty of people in a garden.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

By the tulips people stop to take

Pictures. One wonders which are more

Beautiful: the people or the tulips?

Lush, almost flourescent, like cups,

Like vases, like wet crimson towels

Hanging loose about the naked style.

Or an Annamese girl in striped mini

Just below her drawers, on her forehead

A pale red moon. Or two Indian women

In brilliant prints and gold nose pellets,

Nipples pressing through silk. Or an old

Man with his mother, identical blue chips

Glinting through corrugated skin. Families

Like flower beds, varieties of love

And anguish, phenotype and genotype,

And Babel, magnificent garden!

Or the glory of laughter, that needs

No language, the glee of children racing

Away, the silence of tulips calling

Wildly, pouring out love in perfume.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Beauty.

November 14: At Evening the Boats Crowd Towards Shore

November 15: Tell the World How Lovely Is the Earth

November 16: By the Tulips