March 15, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day, which is celebrated on
March 17th.
Today’s poem is a poem for St. Patrick’s Day to the
descendants of Irish immigrants.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Sing of the home that you have never seen,
The place your ancestors once called their own!
Play the music of that island green,
And dance the dances dear to those long gone!
Time again to fill their dancing shoes,
Reawakening the ghosts within,
In touch with some incendiary muse,
Channeling the beauty that had been.
Knowledge is not merely of the mind:
'Tis of the arms and legs, the throat, the heart.
Sing, that you not lose your soul to time!
Dance, that you might nurture it through art!
As all your passions quickly become past,
Yet you may give life to things that last.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/singo4.html.
For more poems for St. Patrick’s Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/stpatricksdaypoems.html
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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day
March 13: Seriously, Nothing Would Surprise Me
March 14: Sing of Ireland, That Salad Bowl
March 15: Sing of the Home That You Have Never Seen
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