I Wish for You One Thing, and That Is Love

April 7, 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 consists of wishes for a newborn child.

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

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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Bloom as a Metaphor

April 2: Fifty-Three

April 3: Stephen

April 4: Treat Yourself to All the Best of Life

April 5: You Are the Rose About to Bloom

April 6: Flowers Flourish in Their Proper Clime

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