For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 1, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is acceptance.

Today’s poem is a number poem about how life answers one’s embrace.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For those who love, things tend to matter more.

In paradise, one has much to lose.

Feelings race like birds upon the shore,

Tallying the risks one can’t refuse,

Yearning for what one is free to choose.

Embracing what one is, one has, one loves

Is what evokes an answering embrace.

Glory comes and goes; acceptance proves

Hardier than passion, time, or place,

The silent turn that yields the gift of grace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/forth2.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More