February 24, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Presidents Day, which
this year was celebrated on February 19th.
Today’s poem is about the constant sweep of the political
and social pendulum from right to left.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Thank God for pendulums!
Compassion will swing back
Like a corpse on a noose,
And we'll grab it by the knees,
Revive it mouth to mouth.
Faith in people will come back,
And social dreams,
Self-sacrifice and sharing,
While the market crumbles,
Caught in contradictions,
And discos of running dogs and lackeys
Boogie down into the dustbin of history!
Yes, pendulums! Marriage
Till death will come back,
And loving children,
And life once again a fire,
And we its worshippers,
While those who struggle to "succeed"
Cut each other's throats.
Thank God even
That it will swing away again,
Out far out to the dark side
Beyond our most powerful scopes,
Where people crouch like madmen in dark caves,
Chanting slogans we fail to understand.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/pendul.html.
For more poems about politics, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Politics
February 19: President’s Day? Presidents’ Day? Or Presidents Day?
February 20: The Market Is a Merciless Beast
February 21: Fifty-Nine2
February 22: Need Is Not the Mother of Invention
February 23: Sixty-Seven
February 24: Thank God for Pendulums
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