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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

May 8: Maybe There’s a Reason for It All

May 9: Maybe When One Enters the Darkened Room