January 8, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday
of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.
In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day,
celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But
the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s
poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.
Today’s poem is a number poem about the need to create
rather than discover one’s epiphanies.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
The point of life is that there is no point.
We find our meaning in that lack of meaning.
Each is therefore free to choose a mission,
Needing something more than mere ambition,
The pursuit of which can often seem redeeming.
Yet some would their uncertainties anoint.
Freedom doesn't disappear with choice.
In being one, one cannot help be free.
Vast the view, and miniscule the voice,
Even as the voice makes meaning be.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thepo3.html.
For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Epiphanies
January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul
January 3: The Meaning of Eternity
January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending
January 5: Aaron
January 6: Epiphanies Come and Go
January 7: Eager for a Miracle
January 8: The Point of Life Is that There Is NoPoint
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