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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

April 4: Treat Yourself to All the Best of Life