Care to Come with Me to Outer Space

October 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is discovery in honor of Columbus Day, which was celebrated on October 9.

Today’s poem is about new voyages of discovery in outer space.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Care to come with me to outer space?

On wings of will we fly across the void,

Landing in a wilderness of wonders.

Unchain yourselves from now! The present plunders

More than you imagine, dreams destroyed

By labyrinths no longing can retrace.

Ultimately, one pursues the grace

Sought by the heart, or finds oneself employed

Doing what must one's sweet substance squander.

As in my time, great seas, of sails devoid,

Yet beckon to the winds that guide the race.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Discovery

October 9: Can One Ever See What Lies Beyond

October 10: Care to Come with Me to Outer Space