Poem of the Week: April 2018

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

4/28: Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

4/29: Sometimes Time Cracks Open like a Nut

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

April 28, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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

A love poem arguing that love should be free:

Let me love you well, if not too long,

For passion is a lover of fresh air,

Relishing the landscape that is there.

Brief though it be, fulfillment can’t be wrong.

Let me make you part of my sweet song,

As I will be of yours, that both more fair

May part, enriched by what we share,

More seized by life, more gentle, and more strong.

For passion is a gift one should not squander

For fear of loss, losing life's best joy,

The ecstasy that we were meant to feel.

And if it comes and goes, then we must wander,

Enjoying what we're given to enjoy,

Reveling in what our loves reveal.

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

4/28: Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

Thursday, April 26, 2018

I Know You in So Many Ways

April 27, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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

A love poem about two kinds of love:

I know you in so many ways,

And yet I don't know you at all,

Will never know you,

For you are a mystery impenetrable

Even by love.

Love, like a wave, washes over the sand,

But then must roll back into itself,

Ever dying,

Ever resurrected.

Yet beyond love is another love

Which neither lives nor dies

But simply is --

Within us,

Beyond us,

Which we can touch by holding hands.

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

Take It as a Given that I Love You

April 26, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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

A poem in which the poet asks for the truth about a loved one’s love:

Take it as a given that I love you,

And let the conversation go from there.

There isn't much I wouldn't do to please you,

So tell me what to do to make you care.

Tell me what it is that turns you from me,

And why you cannot cherish who I am,

And why you must insist that you still love me

When so much that I do you cannot stand.

The truth is not at all what we imagine,

Reaching regions deeper than our thoughts.

Needs are rarely troubled by opinions,

And love gives no advice unless it's sought.

So plunge into yourself as in a sea,

Then tell me truly what you want of me.

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

April 25, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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A love poem comparing a loved one to the sun:

My lover bathes me in his precious light.

I am the Earth to his all-giving sun.

His needs are burned away in serving mine,

Consumed in the production of his love.

In my awe I'm sometimes forced to wonder:

How can such sweet radiance be sustained?

So selfless is the self in need of need,

So much in love with giving others love.

Still, the sun requires no return.

Light and life come humbly from its fire.

And so I worship him with fruit and flowers,

Grateful for the gift of being near.

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

I Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You

April 24, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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A love poem about discovering what love feels like:

I never thought I'd fall in love with you.

I thought someday, of course, I'd fall in love.

But what it felt like, I just never knew;

I'd no idea what I was thinking of.

And then, somewhere between my need and pleasure,

Walking neither overjoyed nor sad,

I looked into my heart and saw a treasure

Worth more than anything I'd ever had.

Ah! This is love! I thought. And then I wanted

To give my life to see your happiness.

Suddenly, from nowhere, I was haunted,

Needy, joyful, tearful, glad, obsessed.

My love for you has brought me out of me.

The world’s more precious, now that I can see.

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

April 23, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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

A love poem comparing the loved one to the sea:

Your soul is like the vastest sea

And mine a darting fish:

I lose myself within your love;

I live within your heart.

I breathe your love: it is my air,

My element, my world.

I know no other ambiance;

I have no other dream.

I know there is outside your love

A world of rocks and sand;

And I could live there, too, but oh!

How poor and thin each breath!

How rich my world, how beautiful,

Alive within your love,

Each moment filled with dancing light

Refracted through your eyes!

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Each Must Save the Earth in Multiple Ways

April 22, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated today, April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the need for political activity to save the Earth.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

Each must save the Earth in multiple ways.

A vote can cut more carbon than a bulb.

Rules, like acid rain, can span the globe,

Taking aim at those whom blight won't faze.

Hard as many try, it will not do.

Development devours their mite and more.

An equal sacrifice requires a law.

Yet laws are passed by those obliged to you.

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 21: Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

April 22: Each Must Save the Earth in Multiple Ways

Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

April 21, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated tomorrow, April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the self-destructiveness of greed.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even the Earth knows well the market must

Align itself with something more than greed.

Ravenous monsters on the future feed,

Their fangs ripping at Earth's delicate crust.

How might one profit from an empty sea,

Drawing dividends from dying streams?

Although one might find riches at the seams,

Yet none will prosper once the Earth is scree.

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 21: Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

Friday, April 20, 2018

Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 20, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day comparing organized political activity to a rainstorm.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

Each of us is like one drop of rain,

A single splatter on the thirsty sand.

Remember, though, that drops fall not alone,

The products and producers of a grand

Harmony that waters well the plain.

Do not think, then, that you're on your own,

A tiny drop upon a dying land.

You are a storm, whose green fields will remain.

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 19, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about how profoundly the environment is global.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

Environment is greater than environs,

As Sahel sand feeds forests in Brazil,

Russian winters cool Antarctic krill,

The price of phones affects the fate of lions.

How foolish, then, to think in terms of nations,

Dividing what is indivisible,

As though each government could work its will.

Yet melting ice can jiggle Earth’s gyrations.

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 18, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the survival of life on a devastated Earth.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even if the cities on the coast

Are inundated by the rising seas,

Ravaged dunes and barrier beaches lost

To tides that top steel berms and stunted trees,

Heat reaches for the poles, and life goes on,

Devastated, yes, surviving still,

As in times past whole habitats were drowned,

Yet this time only by an act of will.

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 17, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the communal responsibility for destroying the environment.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Everyone is murdering the Earth.

All equally are guilty of this crime.

Redemption can be had, for what it’s worth,

Though we seem to lack both will and time.

How might we restructure all we do,

Deconstruct millennia of sin,

Adjust our dreams to what we know is true?

Yet we must remake ourselves within.

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

Sunday, April 15, 2018

If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 16, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about replacing power plants with solar panels.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

If each house had a solar panel

Built into its roof,

Incentivized so profitably

That few would stay aloof,

Each would be, just like a leaf,

A mini power plant,

Of which there would be forests that

Would furnaces supplant.

The Earth would breathe again, and keep

Its streams and rivers wild,

Its oceans free of thick, black gook,

Its deserts undefiled.

Oh, yes, there would be power plants,

But few and far between,

As urban forests sprouted leaves

That turned the landscape green.

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

For a Year Now We've Been Living Together

April 15, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is for the first anniversary of living together unmarried.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For a year now we've been living together

In something less than marriage, more than friends,

Reasonably happy with each other,

Satisfied to serve our separate ends.

There are no promises, nor should there be,

As we pursue our passions day by day,

Needing only love, which we agree

Need not be guaranteed in any way.

In such a case, there is a case for giving

Very little, just enough to keep

Each even with the common cost of living,

Relating what we sow to what we reap.

So does love die, for love loves not the measure

Allocating carefully its treasure.

Reason may with reason count the cost,

Yet love that is not generous is lost.

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

April 14: For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

April 15: For a Year Now We’ve Been Living Together

Friday, April 13, 2018

For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

April 14, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem comparing the anniversary to the peak of a mountain.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For me this year has been a special mountain,

Incandescent on its sunlit peak.

Revisiting its rich, eventful days,

So full of love, I think with joy of you.

There is no darkness on our lovely mountain

As I gaze from this first blissful peak.

Nothing I imagined yields these days:

Needing, wanting, loving, having you.

In earlier years I thought of this first mountain,

Visioning the vista from its peak,

Enwrapped in fantasies in those days:

Ripples in the darkness without you.

So shall I love you on this yearly mountain

As I gaze from its familiar peak,

Recalling the long innocence of days

Yearning for what I now have in you.

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

April 14: For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Happy First Anniversary

April 13, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about how love will grow over the years.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happy first anniversary!

A milestone, indeed!

Praised be those whose pleasure serves,

Perhaps, a deeper need.

Years will add a certain weight;

For now, all seems sublime.

Intimacy intimates

Rewards that grow with time.

So will love increasingly

Two separate souls combine.

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 12, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about how the inner music of love grows richer with time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

First anniversaries replay a tune

In which there is much music yet unheard,

Repeating lyrics, yet not word for word,

Sensing something new and still rough hewn.

Then sing with joy that old, familiar song

And listen for the notes you cannot hear,

Notes that play but to the inner ear,

Notes unfamiliar as you sing along.

In silence underneath your celebration,

Vivid lies the truth of which you sing,

Enduring, as your passion turns to feeling,

Richer, more complex, yet more secure.

So will you sense this sense without sensation

As you let the bells of glory ring,

Rejoicing in the rhythms of love's meaning,

Yielding to what must be still obscure.

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 11, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about both the beauty and the difficulty of the first year of marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

This first year of marriage has been the best

I've ever known, so deep and rich and full.

I've felt more passion than in all the rest,

Moored at last amidst the tidal pull.

Not that it's been easy. There've been times

When all the world has seemed to come apart:

Anger faces anger, and past crimes,

Real or imagined, lacerate the heart.

Love sometimes settles slowly, like a house

New-built that needs to snuggle in its bed.

When floorboards creak and groan, it's time to douse

The lights and make unbridled love instead!

Love, like air, cannot always be clear;

How sweet to breathe it with you this first year!

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

Monday, April 9, 2018

One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 10, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about how the year has enriched a couple’s love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

One year has passed, and still we are in love,

Nor will time undo what we have done.

Even as boughs break and mountains move,

Years enrich what pleasure has begun.

Each moment of our passion and delight,

As clear as sunshine, bountiful and bright,

Remains as longing after it is gone.

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Until We Met I Didn't Know

April 9, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about the beauty of the first year of marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Until we met I didn't know

How light a heart could be;

How, chained to one by bonds of love,

I still could feel so free.

I didn't realize that my dreams

Could ever be so real;

Or when I had all I could want,

Exactly how I'd feel.

This year of love has brought me through

A long-awaited door:

Were angels parked along our skies,

I could not love you more.

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

Your Legacy Must Be Both Love and Fear

April 8, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since trees, plants, and flowers are about to bloom, this week’s theme is bloom as a metaphor.

Today’s poem is about passing on the genetic tendency for breast cancer.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

Your legacy must be both love and fear.

I know that when you died, you feared for me.

The family curse you carried in your breast

Was not a gift you wanted to pass on.

But fear of it, just like my love for you,

Must linger in my heart, unwelcome guest!

And as I weep for your too early death,

I also can hear rumblings of my own.

Ah, Mother! We are linked like paper dolls,

A line of little cutouts in a row.

I see my clearest memories in my mirror

And feel your anguish bloom beneath my breast.

For this, my love for you is more, not less.

In our misfortune there's a common grace:

For me, in that you must have grieved for me;

For you, in what you knew I’d feel for you.

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This week’s theme: Bloom as a Metaphor

April 2: Fifty-Three

April 3: Stephen

April 6: Flowers Flourish in Their Proper Clime

April 7: I Wish for You One Thing, and That Is Love

April 8: Your Legacy Must Be Both Love and Fear

Saturday, April 7, 2018

I Wish for You One Thing, and That Is Love

April 7, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since trees, plants, and flowers are about to bloom, this week’s theme is bloom as a metaphor.

Today’s poem consists of wishes for a newborn child.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

I wish for you one thing, and that is love:

Love for life, and pure, unfettered joy

At being here upon this vivid earth.

May great pleasure come from giving pleasure,

And love that streams out from your burning heart

Light the darkened world and make it bloom.

I wish you to be loved both well and long

By all those whom you love; that these be many,

Among whom, not the least, might be yourself.

May you love the beautiful and good,

And always act with honesty and justice,

Being what you would that others be.

But most of all, I wish for you a love

Into which you might plunge out of passion,

And in it find serenity and peace.

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This week’s theme: Bloom as a Metaphor

April 2: Fifty-Three

April 3: Stephen

April 6: Flowers Flourish in Their Proper Clime

April 7: I Wish for You One Thing, and That Is Love

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Flowers Flourish in Their Proper Clime

April 6, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since trees, plants, and flowers are about to bloom, this week’s theme is bloom as a metaphor.

Today’s poem is a number poem for someone who has just moved to a new state.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

Flowers flourish in their proper clime,

In which they find the sunlight, soil, and rain

Favorable to who they really are.

Then they and their environment combine,

Yielding leaf to soil to leaf again.

So might a seed blown hither from afar

Implant itself, co-fashioning its room,

Xerophyte or hydrophyte in bloom.

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This week’s theme: Bloom as a Metaphor

April 2: Fifty-Three

April 3: Stephen

April 6: Flowers Flourish in Their Proper Clime

You Are the Rose About to Bloom

April 5, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since trees, plants, and flowers are about to bloom, this week’s theme is bloom as a metaphor.

Today’s poem is from parents to their daughter about a difference in perspective.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

You are the rose about to bloom,

The color soon to wake,

The perfume set to scent the breeze,

The bud about to break.

You stand upon the lip of time

Alight with what will be,

And see yourself out to the sky

Across the open sea.

We see you vertically, a gift

Too beautiful to plumb,

And treasure all the years you were

And all the years to come.

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This week’s theme: Bloom as a Metaphor

April 2: Fifty-Three

April 3: Stephen

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Treat Yourself to All the Best of Life

April 4, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since trees, plants, and flowers are about to bloom, this week’s theme is bloom as a metaphor.

Today’s poem is a number poem about what brings the heart to bloom.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Treat yourself to all the best of life!

Have some love and friendship, passion, beauty!

In these you’ll find a lasting happiness,

Regardless of the risk of pain or stress,

The tough commitment to some long-term duty.

Yet some find little more than constant strife.

Ecstasy, adventure, wealth, and things

Inward flow to vanish in the self,

Granting much in pleasure, less in joy.

Hearts rarely come to full bloom on the shelf,

Though watered well in sun their sweet love sings.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/treat2.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Bloom as a Metaphor

April 2: Fifty-Three

April 3: Stephen