Fantasies Endure the Test of Time

July 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Independence Day (USA), which falls on July 4th.

Today’s poem is a July 4^th poem about the holiday as myth and fantasy.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fantasies endure the test of time.

Out of myths emerge identities.

Underneath the prose there is the rhyme,

Revealing what was not and could not be.

There is a well-worn scrim across the past,

Hard to see through, absent light behind:

Old, self-serving stories made to last,

Fictive landscapes painted on the mind.

Just listen to the songs of who you are:

Underneath your words are melodies

Long rehearsed, the bedroom door ajar,

Years ago, when truth was meant to please.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fanta2.html. For more poems for Independence Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/july4thpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

July 3: Fantasies Endure the Test of Time