Poem of the Week: August 2018

8/30: Sixteen

8/31: Seventeen

9/1: Eighteen

Seventeen

August 31, 2018

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

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A number poem about the white-hot molten selves of seventeen year olds:

Seventeen pounds heavy in the bass

Exactly ten feet from the danger sign.

Vandals had less chaos-lust than these

Ecstatic children of our mores and malls.

Now they tumble, burning, molten steel

To their molds like white-hot waterfalls,

Empty, plunging hearts too sheer to freeze

Each time the lights go on, the worlds align,

No wall of sound across one's ravaged face.

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

8/30: Sixteen

8/31: Seventeen

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Sixteen

August 30, 2018

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

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A nostalgic number poem about a sixteen year old from her parent’s point of view:

Sixteen is intent on being lovely,

Immersed in the sweet rivers of her day,

X-ing out the chubby childhood ways

That I must cherish now in memory only.

Even as time steals the time away,

Each moment is a gift I treasure dearly,

Nor would I for my love the time delay.

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

8/30: Sixteen

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Fie on These Earthlings

August 29, 2018

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

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A number poem for a fifteen year old who looks down on adults:

Fie on these earthlings, who think equal

Is the same! Illogical. I'm

Fifteen, will never be their dreams,

Though they paint me into nightmares.

Eat a whole stackpack and die! Even

E.T. would think twice about home!

No! I'm equal--but not at all the same!

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

Monday, August 27, 2018

Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror

August 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 teenagers.

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A number poem with advice for a fourteen year old.

Fashion for yourself a perfect mirror

On which to gaze when you are quite alone.

Undertake to view yourself completely,

Resisting being more than passive eyes.

There is serenity in merely seeing,

Even when the object is your own,

Even when you notice pride or loathing,

Not avoiding anything but lies.

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Thirteen

August 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 teenagers.

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A number poem about the bubbly joys of being thirteen:

Thirteen is a very lucky age!

Happiness comes tumbling out the door

Instantly a-giggle with a friend,

Returning with the bounce of empty bliss.

There's no better ecstasy than this,

Even when the strange teen changes end,

Even when one finally knows the score.

No time of life's more bubbly than this stage.

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

Mostly, I Would Like to Be Remembered

August 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 sacrifice in honor of Eid al-Adha, which this year is celebrated on August 21-22.

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An epitaph for a wife and mother who sacrificed much but savored so much more:

Mostly, I would like to be remembered

As someone who was passionate for life.

The days of unsought ecstasies are numbered,

However long we linger in the light.

I was one who cultivated wonder,

Less of one contented to explain,

Delighted by the promises of hunger,

Enduring for their joy the years of pain.

Gifts I had aplenty: Some I savored,

Others sacrificed for others' needs.

Remember me as someone who was favored,

Despite constraints, to tumble in the reeds,

Ocean to what winds I could not be,

Nightrider through what worlds I could not see.

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This week’s theme: Sacrifice

8/20: Eric

8/23: Darrin2

8/24: Amanda

8/25: Enduring Passions Are What Change the World

8/26: Mostly, I Would Like to Be Remembered

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Enduring Passions Are What Change the World

August 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 sacrifice in honor of Eid al-Adha, which this year is celebrated on August 21-22.

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A poem for those who devote their lives to creating an institute:

Enduring passions are what change the world,

Undertaking what might last one’s life,

Grasping what at first in darkness furled

Emerges year by year into the light.

No gratitude can match such deep devotion,

Encompass all the good that it has done,

Grant such sacrifice its due emotion,

Reward a selflessness that asks for none.

Even so, we do what we can do,

Enabling this passion, if we can,

Not just by funding institutes, but through

Building what sustains what it began.

Each institute embodies an idea

Rooted in a passionate career,

Granting that the good outlasts the man.

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This week’s theme: Sacrifice

8/20: Eric

8/23: Darrin2

8/24: Amanda

8/25: Enduring Passions Are What Change theWorld

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Amanda

August 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 sacrifice in honor of Eid al-Adha, which this year is celebrated on August 21-22.

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A name poem for someone who sacrifices herself for love:

Amanda is a keeper of the flame,

Mistress of the house and of the ring;

A passionate giver, who knows well the shame

Needing someone silently can bring.

Don't pity her for her self-sacrifice:

Amanda knows her joys and pays the price.

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This week’s theme: Sacrifice

8/20: Eric

8/23: Darrin2

8/24: Amanda

Darrin2

August 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 sacrifice in honor of Eid al-Adha, which this year is celebrated on August 21-22.

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A name poem about drug addicts who are resolved sacrifice their habit for the sake of their child:

Darrin is a ship of dreams

Afloat upon a wind

Reserved for those whom love redeems,

Resolved to turn again

In grim and patient sacrifice,

Not for themselves, but him.

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This week’s theme: Sacrifice

8/20: Eric

8/23: Darrin2

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Selfishness and Selflessness

August 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 sacrifice in honor of Eid al-Adha, which this year is celebrated on August 21-22.

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A set of proverbs about selfish and unselfish sacrifice:

SELFISHNESS AND SELFLESSNESS

1. The last vestige of egotism is the desire for self-sacrifice.

2. The reward for self-sacrifice is self-adulation.

3. The desire to "make a difference" is a desire for personal significance, the cause of much evil, error, and pain.

4. True selflessness requires one to relinquish the desire for power.

5. The motivations for action ought always to be joy and love.

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This week’s theme: Sacrifice

8/20: Eric

Monday, August 20, 2018

Even as You Sacrifice Yourself

August 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 sacrifice in honor of Eid al-Adha, which this year is celebrated on August 21-22.

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A poem for Eid al-Adha about sacrifice as a gift:

Even as you sacrifice yourself,

In love with love and gratified to give,

Dancing 'cross the ancient inner gulf

Athwart the plain on which each soul must live,

Long-borne burdens lighten into prayer,

Acts of worship meant as acts of care,

Done freely out of gratitude and grace,

Hard - yes, hard - and far more than your share,

And still a gift no pleasure can replace.

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This week’s theme: Sacrifice

8/20: Eric

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Eric

August 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 sacrifice in honor of Eid al-Adha, which this year is celebrated on August 21-22.

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A name poem for someone who sacrificed his life to save another:

Eric gave his life to save another,

Refusing to reduce it to his breath.

In his time of truth he faced his shudder,

Choosing life by going to his death.

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This week’s theme: Sacrifice

8/20: Eric

Sweet Sixteens Are Harbingers of Grace

August 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 birthdays.

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A birthday poem that serves as an invitation to a sweet sixteen party:

Sweet Sixteens are harbingers of grace,

Intimations of a childhood's end,

Xxx's on the envelope of time.

This invitation I to you extend,

Easy in the rush of time and place,

Expecting in the moment's silver chime

No more than just a glimpse of life to come.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

8/17: Darcy Is Five

8/18: Quince Is the Sunrise of a Woman

8/19: Sweet Sixteens Are Harbingers of Grace

Friday, August 17, 2018

Quince Is the Sunrise of a Woman

August 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 birthdays.

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A fifteenth birthday poem (in Hispanic culture similar to the sixteenth birthday in the U.S.):

Quince is the sunrise of a woman

Underneath a starry sky of love.

In her again life's gift of youthful grace

New dawns across the ancient family face,

Charming in a way the years will prove,

Eager to translucent skies illumine.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

8/17: Darcy Is Five

8/18: Quince Is the Sunrise of a Woman

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Darcy Is Five

August 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 birthdays.

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A fifth birthday poem:

Darcy is five!

Oh me, oh my!

Can someone please

Tell me why?

Why isn't she four,

Or three, or two,

Or six, or seven?

Please tell me, do!

But five is good.

Five's OK.

Now why can't she

Stay that way?

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

8/17: Darcy Is Five

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

You See the Beauty of Your Years

August 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 birthdays.

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A birthday poem for a parent wishing him or her a bit of silent grace:

You see the beauty of your years,

I hope. With all your children's love,

This day must bring you happy tears

And tranquil thoughts that joyful prove.

I hope, with all your children's love,

There is a refuge all your own,

And tranquil thoughts that joyful prove

Beyond the family you call home.

There is a refuge all your own

Amid the crowds of time and place,

Beyond the family you call home,

Where you are in the grip of grace.

Amid the crowds of time and place,

This day must bring you happy tears.

Where you are in the grip of grace,

You see the beauty of your years.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

Happy Birthday to My Cyber Friend

August 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 birthdays.

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A birthday poem for an Internet friend:

Happy birthday to my cyber friend!

As words must be our medium, a poem,

Perhaps, may best my birthday wishes send,

Poems being inner portraits out on loan.

Yet I would be a landscape in the mountains,

Bright sun battering an empty sky,

Immense rock faces answering all questions,

Resolving all in what instead of why.

To you instead I send a humble hope

Hedged with roses swaying in the wind,

Diminutive in eloquence and scope,

A wish for one day beautiful and kind,

Yet with all my heart and wistful mind.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

Monday, August 13, 2018

Aileen

August 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 birthdays.

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A name poem for an eightieth birthday:

Aileen has reached the ripe old age of eighty!

In her there's been much music, song, and dance.

Love like wind on sand designed her life,

Early on a mother and a wife.

Even in late years she's had romance.

Nor has she toiled for less than love and beauty.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Seven Years! That's Not So Long

August 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 birthdays.

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A seventh birthday poem:

Seven years! That’s not so long.

Just the right time for a song.

A happy Happy Birthday song!

If you like it, sing along!

Seven years! Imagine that!

Forty-nine, if you’re a cat.

Good thing that you’re not a cat!

You’d be middle-aged! Imagine that!

Seven years! A long, long time!

But nowhere near as long as mine!

Each year is precious. I like mine,

Grateful for the gift of time.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

Julie

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A name poem for a child who lived almost to adolescence:

Julie died sometime in her mid-morning,

Unable to take in her afternoon.

Life's an equal gift from dawn to evening,

Infinite in happiness and grieving,

Even when the night falls far too soon.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

8/11: Sarah2

8/12: Julie

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Sarah2

August 11, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A name poem about the richness of even a very short life:

Sarah lived a rich, full life

Although she died in infancy,

Reminding us that all of us

Are blessed with life no more than she,

Having touched eternity.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

8/11: Sarah2

Friday, August 10, 2018

I Have One Living Son

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A poem about three children who died in infancy:

I have one living son, Justin,

And two daughters: Letisha and Anastasia.

And three dead sons, my first sons,

Who died because they were too small.

I love them as much as I do the others.

They lived their entire lives within me,

All but a few short, sickly days.

And now I mourn them as I do my other loved ones passed.

Do not think that time together

Has anything to do with grief.

Flesh of my flesh, they are my children.

I think of them often, as I do my parents,

As I would any souls I have loved.

The dead whom we love are like trees on a riverbank:

The river flows by, the trees remain.

Three lovely trees, as tall and thick as any of the others.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Caitlin

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A name poem for a child who died within the womb:

Caitlin lived a long and happy life,

All within the palace of my womb.

If she could not joy to be a wife,

There were some bright colors on her loom.

Let those who mourn remember that she died

In sweet communion with my soul inside,

Nor did she lack for love from bliss to tomb.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

8/9: Caitlin

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

I Cannot Help but Be What I Would Not

August 8, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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An angry poem from a mother who miscarried to a father who could not be there:

I cannot help but be what I would not:

A river raging reckless through our love;

But anger is the closest thing I've got

To what far more aggrieved must in me move.

I know quite well that I'm not being fair:

You could not help but be untimely gone.

But unlike you, I could not be but there

To feel our child go dead within my womb.

How you are like the wind, and I the earth

That bears the seed you scatter on your way!

Mine alone the brutal joys of birth;

Yours alone the choice to go or stay.

Despite our love, despite your sympathy,

I know that I in this alone must be.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

Monday, August 6, 2018

To a Stillborn Sister

August 7, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A love poem to a stillborn sister:

How do you love a person

Who never got to be,

Or try again to see a face

You never got to see?

How do you mourn the death of one

Who never got to live,

When there's nothing to feel good about

And nothing to forgive?

I love you, little sister.

You're a person of the wind,

Free to be the memory

Of all that might have been.

I love you, little sister,

My companion of the night,

Wandering through my lonely hours,

Beautiful and bright.

What does it mean to die before

You ever can be born,

To live the lovely night of life

And never see the dawn?

Ah! My little sister,

You lived like anyone!

Life's a burst of joy and pain,

And then, like yours, it's done.

I love you, little sister,

Just as if you'd lived for years.

No more, no less, I think of you,

The angel of my tears.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Aryanna

August 6, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A name poem for a stillborn child:

Aryanna died when she was born,

Reminding us how briefly we are here.

Years, like minutes, cannot last for long;

A note is no less precious than a song,

Nor for her early death was she less dear.

Now what we can do for her is mourn,

As she is salient only to our tears.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Happiness Has Been Your Gift to Me

August 5, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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An anniversary poem about the love that lasts beneath the years:

Happiness has been your gift to me

All these years of melody and pain,

Pleasure, hardship, wanton rhapsody,

Pure delight and hard, wind-driven rain.

Years do not add up to love and glory:

All things rest on non-things far more true.

No note is so sustained throughout our story;

Nothing but your love, and mine for you.

In our lives must always be confusion:

Very little lost in Time is clear.

Even so, the whirlwind's an illusion

Regarding the few things we hold most dear.

So you have chosen me, and in that choice

Alone I find my refuge and my voice.

Reality is made by our own will:

You made my world and hold me in it still.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

8/4: Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

8/5: Happiness Has Been Your Gift to Me

Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

August 4, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A thirty-eighth anniversary poem about love and time:

Time, in time, eventually is timeless,

Having flattened out into a sea.

In moments of sufficient mass is oneness,

Reduced to what might seem eternity.

There is in love a similar dynamic

Yielding to the outpourings of years,

Endless end, redemption oceanic,

Infinite home for memories and tears.

Give, then, due thanks for love that lasts forever,

However long that is, a depthless deep

That rests beneath the restless waves of ever,

Happily the one thing you may keep.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

8/4: Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

Friday, August 3, 2018

Happy Second Anniversary

August 3, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A second anniversary poem about how a couple changes slowly together:

Happy second anniversary!

As time wears on, the newness wears away;

Passion turns to pleasurable play;

Preference becomes necessity.

Years are markers towards a transformation

Slow and unobtrusive as a tide

Elevating vessels side by side,

Changing both, but ever in relation.

On this, your second, then, may you rejoice,

Nestled in the chamber of your choice,

Destined by your love for celebration.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Heaven Isn't Easy

August 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A fifth anniversary poem about the hard work involved in love’s labor:

Heaven isn’t easy. God knows it takes

A lot of work to build a house of love.

Praised be those devoted to love’s labor,

Passing love on to their generations,

Yielding pleasure in return for joy.

For love’s labor’s never lost, but makes

It easier for happiness to prove

Fit for those who would return the favor,

Trading fantasy for brick till the relation

Has roof and walls no wild wind would destroy.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries