January 14, 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 for a singer/songwriter.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
There is no greater passion than for beauty --
Ecstasy distilled into a song --
Nor calling more exquisite than the duty
To make our own the truths for which we long.
Here's to you, then! And for what you've done
To be the muse who mirrors well our hearts,
Restoring the lone many to the one
Common love that underlies all arts.
O love of being, bearer of our pain!
Well might we praise the gardeners who bring
Our passions into bloom, that we again
Might hear the sunlit bird within us sing.
Long may you ply what practices you've learned,
Profiting all by artistry you've earned.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/ther27.html. For more poems about professions, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html .
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
January 11: Hrithik
January 12: Charles
January 13: For You, Life Has Its Own Internal Music
January 14: There Is No Greater Passion than for Beauty
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