January 10, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is the performing arts.
Today’s poem is a Hanukkah and name poem about making one’s
living in the theater.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
So you want to make your living in the theater!
Easier to burn without oil for eight days!
The point of Hanukkah is that God has his ways.
However ...
And what kind of miracle are you looking for, anyway?
No miracle is going to give you back your life:
Days of dreams, days and nights of despair, years and years
and years of hope...
Living at the heart of creation;
Of all the dry movement, flakes of dead talk,
Retakes, rituals, favors for the files,
Rendering one perfect, sparkling scream ...
A miracle takes a lot of rehearsal.
In between, one works and wonders, wonders and counts the
days.
Nodding from exhaustion, one says yes, yes, yes,
Even this, yes, even this ...
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/theate.html.
For more poems about professions, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html
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This week’s theme: Performing Arts
January 8: Feelings Are Not Easily Counterfeited
January 9: Actors Wear a Special Mask
January 10: So You Want to Make Your Living in the Theater
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