August 25, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
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.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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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.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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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
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