Songs Lend Thought the Persuasive Force of Beauty

August 7, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is artistic creativity.

Today’s poem is a number poem about the power of songs and the difficulty of writing them.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Songs lend thought the persuasive force of beauty,

Enduring longer than the naked word.

Vested in a song, one does one’s duty,

Ever the evangelistic bird.

Nor ought one’s passion strike one as absurd.

The gift of song comes with the gift of yearning,

Years and years of wanting, wishing, burning.

Sing, then, of song, and of its intimate power,

Each singer in the grip of its embrace,

Vividly reworking, listening, learning,

Ever on the ragged edge of grace,

Needing patient urgency to flower.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Artistic Creativity

August 7: Songs Lend Thought the Persuasive Force of Beauty