Twenty-Eight5

April 18, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment in honor of Earth Day, which falls on April 22.

Today’s poem is a number poem for someone who advocates going back to a healthier past.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Twenty-eight commands a following

With passion, wit, intelligence, and style.

Even as he uses modern means,

Needing the technology awhile,

The past remains the future of his dreams,

Yielding days that dance and nights that sing.

Earth lies wounded, wincing, shuddering,

Injured every moment we defile

Gifts that once poured forth like spring-fed streams,

Heart beneath a breast once nurturing

Tumultuously pumping filth and bile.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/28e.html. For more poems about the environment, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/environmentalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Environment

April 17: From Desert to Forest, from Sun to Shade

April 18: Twenty-Eight5