Poem of the Week: May 2017

May 30: Make My Death a Canticle for Peace

May 31: Maybe Grief Needs Ritual, as Music

June 1: Maybe It Was Worth It, Maybe Not

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Maybe Grief Needs Ritual, as Music

May 31, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Memorial Day, which was observed on May 29.

Today’s poem is a Memorial Day poem about how ritual can contain the pain of grief.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Maybe grief needs ritual, as music

Embraces rules that turn sound into song.

Maybe if one trusts that one won't lose it,

One can turn away, though grief be strong.

Reserve, then, days for rituals of mourning

In which one may allow the flood of grief

Again to inundate the heart, restoring

Life to deserts thirsting for relief.

Dance depends on choreography

As pain declares its sovereign right to be,

Yet performs with grace restrained and brief.

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This week’s theme: Memorial Day

May 30: Make My Death a Canticle for Peace

May 31: Maybe Grief Needs Ritual, as Music

Make My Death a Canticle for Peace

May 30, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Memorial Day, which was observed on May 29.

Today’s poem is a Memorial Day poem asking the mourner to pursue inner harmony and peace.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Make my death a canticle for peace.

Evil has no greater friend than anger,

Making ready converts to its cause.

On me think but of beauty as you pause,

Remembering the service of a stranger

In giving up his life to purchase yours.

All I ask is that you do your part,

Living in the sunlight of my death,

Dancing till your self-sown furies cease.

As you enjoy the gift of every breath,

Yet mourn for me with morning in your heart.

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

This week’s theme: Memorial Day

May 30: Make My Death a Canticle for Peace

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Make a Little Time for Public Mourning

May 29, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Memorial Day, which is observed today, May 29.

Today’s poem is a Memorial Day poem about the need for public mourning.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Make a little time for public mourning,

Easing the harsh pangs of hidden grief.

Maybe ritual tears will bring relief,

Offering a role for one's dark calling.

Remember the utility of sharing,

Inviting cloistered hearts to come outdoors

And dance with us along our barren shores,

Lost within the music of our longing.

Death requires our collaboration

As we render due commemoration,

Yielding sorrow to the common cause.

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

This week’s theme: Memorial Day

Remember, Please, the Reason for Your Fasting

May 28, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims which begins on May 27.

Today’s poem is a Ramadan poem about the purpose of fasting.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Remember, please, the reason for your fasting.

A body ought to live beyond the body,

More focused on a life that's everlasting

As all that must be clothed and shod turns shoddy,

Disintegrating slowly into dust,

Amazed, despite well knowing that it must.

Nor is salvation simply for the asking.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/remem4.html. For more Ramadan poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/ramadanpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Ramadan

May 23: Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart

May 26: Reason Without Faith Is Pure Relation

May 27: Right Action Is the Mother of Right Feeling

May 28: Remember, Please, the Reason for Your Fasting

Friday, May 26, 2017

Right Action Is the Mother of Right Feeling

May 27, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims which begins today, May 27.

Today’s poem is a Ramadan poem about how, in the pursuit of faith, action precedes feeling.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Right action is the mother of right feeling.

As one does, one ultimately becomes.

Mere words are insufficiently revealing.

An act of faith revives what living numbs.

Do, then, faithfully the month observe,

And by your abstinence your spirit serve.

Nor will that act be any less than healing.

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This week’s theme: Ramadan

May 23: Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart

May 26: Reason Without Faith Is Pure Relation

May 27: Right Action Is the Mother of Right Feeling

Reason Without Faith Is Pure Relation

May 26, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims which begins on May 27.

Today’s poem is a Ramadan poem about the inadequacy of reason without faith.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Reason without faith is pure relation,

A sterile tool with doubt as its reward.

Mere connection cannot guide the mind

Absent a wisdom with deep faith combined,

Defining each sustained note with a chord.

A soul sees little substance in sensation,

Needing more than unframed thought can find.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/reaso3.html. For more Ramadan poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/ramadanpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Ramadan

May 23: Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart

May 26: Reason Without Faith Is Pure Relation

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Roam Anywhere You Wish and Then Return

May 25, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims which begins on May 27.

Today’s poem is a Ramadan poem urging the faithful not to fear secular knowledge.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Roam anywhere you wish, and then return.

All you want to know, you ought to know.

Maybe you're afraid that what you learn

Apart from holy things will turn your head.

Delight in Allah everywhere you go,

And feed your hungry mind till it's well fed.

Nor need you for your faith one insight spurn.

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

This week’s theme: Ramadan

May 23: Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Return to the Sweet Discipline of Faith

May 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims which begins on May 27.

Today’s poem is a Ramadan poem about the beauty of following religious ritual.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Return to the sweet discipline of faith!

A ritual is rich in grace and feeling.

Make yourself a servant that you might

Attend with less of will and more of sight,

Doing what is asked, not what's appealing,

Alive with light, free of want and hate.

Nor does one moment pass that is not healing.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/retur2.html. For more Ramadan poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/ramadanpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Ramadan

May 23: Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart

Monday, May 22, 2017

Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart

May 23, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims which begins on May 27.

Today’s poem is a Ramadan poem about the role of faith in every moment of life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Religion must touch more than mind and heart.

A living faith must be a way of life.

Mundane tasks done righteously are prayer,

As outer harmony heals inner strife.

Devotion must not be a thing apart,

Applied when turned towards Mecca. Everywhere

Needs passionate delight and humble care.

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This week’s theme: Ramadan

May 23: Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Righteousness Is Not Self-Righteousness

May 22, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims which begins on May 27.

Today’s poem is a Ramadan poem about the distinction between righteousness and self-righteousness.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Righteousness is not self-righteousness,

As it requires a humble, loving heart.

Maybe one is proud that one is faithful

And slowly turns more arrogant than grateful,

Delighting in oneself. But faith is tearful,

Alight with longing and joyful tenderness,

Never whole but as an indigent part.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/right2.html. For more Ramadan poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/ramadanpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Ramadan

How Can Hope Become a Way of Life

May 21, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since this is a week when many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about the wisdom of deferred gratification.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How can hope become a way of life,

A principle determining one's ends,

Putting what might be before what is,

Postponing pleasure till the sacrifice

Yields the dream--contorted, yes, but real?

Granted, one might choose to live one's life

Removed from all pursuit of distant ends,

Avid for the ecstasy of is,

Desiring neither change nor sacrifice,

Undone by the immediately real.

A moment cannot help but move one’s life

To serve by will or chance enduring ends.

In time one sees will be and was in is,

Opening one's heart to sacrifice,

Needing larger nows to hold what's real.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

May 19: Sometimes a Sacrifice or Two Comes Easy

May 20: We Are Upward Bound

May 21: How Can Hope Become a Way of Life

Friday, May 19, 2017

We Are Upward Bound

May 20, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since this is a week when many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem from the graduates to their teachers.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

We are upward bound, the world's bright future,

The generation that will not betray

Its noblest dreams, the things that we've been taught here,

The ways of peace and brotherhood and love.

So as we make this final farewell gesture

And take our leave on graduation day,

Let us thank the teachers that we've found here,

Who must each day be what they hope to prove.

What a gift you've given us -- yourselves!

The best in you, that you might be a sign

To us of what the best in us can be:

Loving, smart, hardworking, fair, and kind.

Your temperament's the well-wrought text that tells

Us more than any lesson you assign.

We become the people that we see

And treasure long the good we leave behind.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

May 19: Sometimes a Sacrifice or Two Comes Easy

May 20: We Are Upward Bound

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Sometimes a Sacrifice or Two Comes Easy

May 19, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since this is a week when many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem from someone who has sacrificed to enable his or her spouse to graduate.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sometimes a sacrifice or two comes easy:

Love's a very generous reward.

Two people are in equal need quite rarely,

So one becomes the tune and one the chord.

Today I feel immeasurably lucky

To celebrate with you this milestone.

The music in my heart is very lovely.

I watch you from below, but not alone.

I'll always be exactly where you want me,

As I have faith that you will be for me.

No missing paradise will ever haunt me,

For you and I will share our melody.

I'm proud of what you've done and what you'll do.

No one could be more blessed than I with you.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/somet2.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

May 19: Sometimes a Sacrifice or Two Comes Easy

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Graduation's Reason to Rejoice

May 18, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since this is a week when many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem for a close friend.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduation's reason to rejoice,

Realizing at last a long-sought end.

And so yours gives occasion to my voice,

Delighting in the gift of being friends.

Underneath your pleasure is my pride,

As yours remains the rock on which I stand.

The window through which I can see inside

Is hung upon the mirror in your hand.

One cannot be one without the other,

Nor can we be ourselves without another.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Graduation Ought Not Be an End

May 17, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since this is a week when many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about how what one learns is more important than the degree.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduation ought not be an end,

Replacing what within we might achieve.

After all, the good that we intend

Does much to serve the good that we receive.

Underneath the mask of a degree

A person must perform with just the skill,

The knowledge and the art that he or she

Internalized through pluck, hard work, and will.

On what we are will rest what we become,

Nor do we have much else to draw upon.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

Monday, May 15, 2017

Graduation Shouldn't Be Too Easy

May 16, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since this is a week when many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem encourages students to take demanding courses on their way to a degree.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduation shouldn’t be too easy,

Reducing the repute of the degree.

Although some courses might make you feel queasy,

Dreams need stairs to reach reality.

Ultimately, what matters is what you

Are capable of, your knowledge and your skill.

These years are only worth what you can do;

If you can’t, no piece of paper will.

On you is laid the burden of your fate.

Now’s your chance to learn to bear the weight.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/grad13.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

Sunday, May 14, 2017

To the Graduate Whose Life I Share

May 15, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since this is a week when many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem to a spouse.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

To the graduate whose life I share,

On whose success I’ve laid the weight of mine:

The love and gratitude are always there;

However, on such special days they shine.

Enjoy your well-earned pomp and circumstance!

Graduations ought to be bejeweled,

Richly robed, as choreographed as dance,

A paean to a world by wisdom ruled.

Dearest soul, I find my joy in yours.

Underneath my pleasure is your smile.

As you shift your tassel*, my heart soars,

There is no inch of me that’s not applause,

Embracing you in spirit all the while.

*Graduates shift the tassel on their mortar boards, or special graduation hats, from right to left at the moment they are granted their degrees.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

A Vase of Flowers in a Window Frame

May 14, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14.

Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem about how a mother’s love lasts all one’s life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

A vase of flowers in a window frame.

A house of gentle light amid dark leaves.

An ecstasy so sharp it feels like anguish,

The pull that makes our beeline an ellipse.

No transcendental morning's inspiration

So ravishes the things we never see.

We hear for all our lives a silent music

To which we dance unknowing through our time.

And even when we die, there is a beauty

Older than the cold December stars,

A part of us that waits behind the darkness

To take us once again into its arms.

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This week’s theme: Motherhood

May 12: A Mother Casts Her Dreams into the Sea

May 13: A Mother Serves Her Sugar

May 14: A Vase of Flowers in a Window Frame

Friday, May 12, 2017

A Mother Serves Her Sugar

May 13, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14.

Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem about a mother’s need to prepare her child for independence.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

A mother serves her sugar with

A bit of peppermint

To clarify the passages

That carry what she meant

When she first set to bear a soul

Quite separate from her own,

Whom she would cherish, yet must teach

To live and die alone.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/amothe.html. For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Motherhood

May 12: A Mother Casts Her Dreams into the Sea

May 13: A Mother Serves Her Sugar

Thursday, May 11, 2017

A Mother Casts Her Dreams into the Sea

May 12, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14.

Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem about motherhood as a kind of immortality.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

A mother casts her dreams into the sea;

We, the words sent bobbing towards the sun,

The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy.

Because she must conclude her melody

And fall back to the sweet dark hush of One,

A mother casts her dreams into the sea,

Hoping to cross that wild infinity

And on some infant shore again to run,

The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy

Outside the fiery circle of memory,

The howling surf, the incessant years undone ...

A mother casts her dreams into the sea

And then dissolves into a tapestry,

Her rolling, helpless drift again begun,

The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy

Afloat once more upon eternity,

Once more the alien fury, never done ...

Again, again, her dreams into the sea,

The eggs of stone, the shards of prophesy!

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothca.html. For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Motherhood

May 12: A Mother Casts Her Dreams into the Sea

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Maybe Every Moment's Meant to Be

May 11, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14.

Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem for a woman whose children miscarried.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Maybe every moment’s meant to be.

One chooses in the dark and takes a path

That leads one to the wonder of what is.

How might one see another’s hand in this?

Each choice was a prediction in the past,

Revealing only what one wished to see.

Here and now remains a mystery.

One watches from one’s rock-bound coast the vast

Ocean of experience and bliss,

Deeper than the heart, wind-sculpted, free.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/mayb15.html. For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Motherhood

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Motherhood Is a Generic Term

May 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14.

Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem about the wide reach of the term “motherhood.”

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Motherhood is a generic term,

One that is applied to more than mothers.

The honorific’s something one can earn,

Having loved in ways that nurture others.

Enduring love for children is a song

Requiring only will for one to sing,

Having well-versed voices sing along

Over time, till one’s bright brood takes wing.

Oh, yes, one can also mother birds,

Dogs, cats, horses, love that needs no words.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/moth15.html. For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Motherhood

Monday, May 8, 2017

Maybe When One Enters the Darkened Room

May 9, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14.

Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem about the extraordinary strength of the emotions of motherhood.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Maybe when one enters the darkened room,

Opening the door in a narrow burst of light,

The child at last blissfully asleep,

Here, now, the furtive kiss upon the cheek,

Exiting slowly, exquisitely quietly, the night

Restored as the door is cracked against the gloom …

Here, now, the freedom, the sense of sheer relief,

One feels the grace of love like an anguished chord,

Oceanic, overwhelming, like grief

Doubled into joy, too real for words.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/mayb14.html. For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Motherhood

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Maybe There's a Reason for It All

May 8, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14.

Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem about the beautiful music of love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Maybe there's a reason for it all.

Or maybe not. There doesn't have to be.

The music is enough, a melody

Heard coming from behind the Western Wall,

Echo of enduring ecstasy,

Remnant of a love beyond recall,

So beautiful one must sing harmony.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/mayb13.html. For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Motherhood