Poem of the Week: September 2018

9/28: I Promise You My Innocence

9/29: I Want to Help You Fly

9/30: If You Loved Me, You’d Be There for Me

Saturday, September 29, 2018

I Want to Help You Fly

September 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 love.

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A love poem about the paradox of wanting what’s best for a lover, but not if it means losing him or her.

I want to help you fly,

But not away from me.

I want what's best for you,

But fear what that might be.

There is no paradox

More difficult than this:

That I would die for you,

Yet not give up your kiss.

So do not mind my madness;

Fly bravely, if you must:

I'll watch you, happy in your joy,

And teach my heart to trust.

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This week’s theme: Love

9/28: I Promise You My Innocence

9/29: I Want to Help You Fly

Thursday, September 27, 2018

I Promise You My Innocence

September 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 love.

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

A love poem promising fulfillment:

I promise you my innocence

When fire fills the sky,

When the sun erupts in ecstasy

And fading furies die.

I want to fill your life with love,

So full you want to cry,

And make myself your land and sea,

Your mirror and your eye.

I lay my happiness upon

The pillow of your sigh;

Your joy, your love, your need of me

Is where my angels lie.

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This week’s theme: Love

9/28: I Promise You My Innocence

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

I Love You with All I Am

September 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 love.

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A love poem about the total joining of two people through love:

I love you with all I am

And all I'll ever be.

You are my moon, my sun and stars,

My earth, my sky, my sea.

My love for you goes down and down

Beneath both life and death,

So deep it must remain when I

Have drawn my last faint breath.

Holding you for months and years

Will make Time disappear,

Will make your lips my lips, your face

My face, your tear my tear;

Will make us one strange personage

All intertwined in bliss,

Not man or woman, live or dead--

Just nothing--but a kiss!

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This week’s theme: Love

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

I Love You & Etc.

September 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 love.

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A humorous love poem full of clichés:

I love you & etc.

As I have never loved.

You are the one, of all so far,

That I'm most certain of.

I'll do anything, etc.,

To keep your cool green eyes,

And make you smile that golden smile,

And still your lonely sighs.

You're the greatest & etc.

Guy I've ever met.

Right now you are my heart and soul,

Etcetera & etcet.

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This week’s theme: Love

Monday, September 24, 2018

My Love for You Is Something I'm Afraid of

September 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 love.

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A love poem from a teenager to an adult lover:

My love for you is something I'm afraid of.

You're all grown up, and I am still a kid.

You tell me that you love me. I believe it.

But something in me says this isn't good.

You touch me and I melt into your yearning.

You kiss me and I never want to stop.

I dream of you whenever I'm not with you.

And yet I cannot trust you - not just yet.

Yes, love and trust must always go together,

And it's a sign of trouble when they don't.

You are a man, and I not yet a woman,

Too young to know exactly what I want.

You say you'll wait for me, which makes me happy,

As I, too, wait for me to find my way.

Years are sunlit space for me to grow in

Until we can love boldly, eye-to-eye.

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This week’s theme: Love

Sunday, September 23, 2018

I Don't Know How We Get into These Fights

September 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 love.

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An “I’m sorry” love poem apologizing for fighting:

I don't know how we get into these fights.

After them I look back at the ashes

More shocked than hurt, as when a light plane crashes,

Slanting numb through strange, unearthly lights.

Oh, how I wish I could get off that plane

Rushing to its rendezvous with tears!

Rage is but a mask for my shy fears.

Yet I would die before I caused you pain.

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This week’s theme: Love

Proverbs on Good and Evil

September 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 good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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A set of proverbs on good and evil:

PROVERBS ON GOOD AND EVIL

1. Good and evil are like unstable elements that bond immediately to form a single molecule. A jolt of electricity, however, can temporarily separate them again.

2. The innocent are guilty of not knowing they are guilty, whereas the guilty are innocent of not knowing they are guilty.

3. The most common justification for evil is cynicism. The second most common justification for evil is idealism. However, idealism tends to justify the greater evil.

4. One often perceives someone as evil because one perceives oneself as good. This error is the cause of a great deal of confusion and suffering.

5. The reward for goodness is self-satisfaction, wherein also lies great danger.

6. How, then, is one to know good from evil? That which springs from love is good. That which springs from greed, lust, or hatred is evil. That which is beautiful is good. That which is ugly is evil. That which you yourself would want from another is good. That which you yourself would not want from another is evil.

7. There are those who cast aside all restraints and are willingly evil. There are those who live perpetually restrained and become self-righteous. There are those who are aware of the evil in their hearts, words, and acts, yet are able to love themselves and others.

8. Evil must sometimes be met with violence, but the only antidote is love.

9. Thus to be good one must love those who are evil, among whom one must include oneself. That is, to be good one must know one is evil, both at war and at peace with oneself.

10. In the war between good and evil, the major battleground is in the hearts of children, and the weapons are the lives of adults.

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

9/21: The Problem Isn’t Simply One of Rules

9/22: Gretchen

9/23: Proverbs on Good and Evil

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Gretchen

September 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 good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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A name poem for a universal giver of good:

Gretchen is a universal giver,

Replenishing our reservoirs within.

Each act of kindness swells a righteous river,

Tears that flow against the tide of sin.

Could kindness only be like blood transfused,

How simple it would be to heal the heart!

Even so, every drop is used,

Needed tincture for the healer’s art.

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

9/21: The Problem Isn’t Simply One of Rules

9/22: Gretchen

Friday, September 21, 2018

The Problem Isn't Simply One of Rules

September 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 good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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

A poem about the causes of corruption and what one can do about it:

The problem isn’t simply one of rules.

Corruption is a matter of the heart

In which one’s inner music plays its part,

Cacophony that makes chords sound like fools.

One cannot teach integrity in schools,

Nor sell it through philosophy or art,

Nor fashion it from fear, nor from the start

Build it with a set of legal tools.

All these are well and good, and should be done.

But one must change the music if one would

Reduce corruption to a rare disease.

One dances to a tune, for there is none

Not moved by music. So sing! And your voice could

Restore a bit of virtue by degrees.

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

9/21: The Problem Isn’t Simply One of Rules

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Proverbs on Ideological Idealism

September 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 good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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

A set of proverbs about the evil of ideological idealism:

PROVERBS ON IDEOLOGICAL IDEALISM

1. Ideological idealism is an idealism that is so sure it is right that it is willing to impose its vision on an unwilling world.

2. Ideals ought to be mountains to guide one’s chosen way, not blueprints for a prison to keep people behind bars for their own good.

3. Non-ideological idealists devote their lives first to people and then perhaps to an organization or cause. Ideological idealists devote their lives first to an organization or cause and then perhaps to people.

4. Cynicism, lust, and greed tend to cause less evil than ideological idealism since their evil is committed in pursuit of some limited selfish end, whereas the evil of ideological idealism is committed in pursuit of unachievable ends and therefore knows no bounds.

5. One ought not be frightened away from idealism by the dangers of ideological idealism since once the differences between them become apparent, it should not be difficult to devote oneself to one and avoid the other.

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Year After Year, You Promise to Atone

September 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 good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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

A poem for Yom Kippur about an inability to recognize how deeply one is implicated in the evil of one’s world:

Year after year, you promise to atone.

Often, yes, you actually mean it.

Maybe you remember life's on loan,

Knowing you're expected to redeem it.

Into prayers you pour your willing heart,

Perhaps at times unsure of what you've done,

Perhaps at times unsure of where to start,

Uncovering what look like sins, though none

Requires much atonement on your part.

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

You Wrap Your Mind Around the Consequence

September 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 good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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

A secular view for Yom Kippur of why one should be good rather than evil:

You wrap your mind around the consequence

Of sin not having any consequence.

Murderers, torturers, pimps, thieves in the end

Know they’ll share with saviors the same end.

If this is true, what reason to do good?

Perhaps there is an inner music good

People hear that evil people miss,

Universal love no soul should miss,

Radiance no one-time soul should miss.

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Cynicism Comes from Self-Disgust

September 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 good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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

A philosophical poem about how cynicism comes from a lack of balance in one’s vision of good and evil:

Cynicism comes from self-disgust,

Yearning for a world one has surrendered.

No vision is complete but in repose,

Implicit in the steady gaze within.

Come, then, to know that good and evil must

In everyone with due respect be rendered,

So delicate their dance, as much in those

Not cynical as in those steeped in sin.

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

Swinging Low in Chariots

September 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 faith, in honor of both the Jewish and Islamic New Years.

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A poem about the demise of faith in modern times:

Swinging low in chariots

Each band of angels holds its fire,

Thinking we poor fools below

Have all the pain that we require.

And the mountains in reply

Nod their drifty, rock-wreathed heads,

Drawing back bold deities,

Leaving us in anguished beds.

O, Mary, neither weep nor mourn

Remembering the fuel-less flame,

Remembering the love of God,

A thing we called "Ha-Shem," the Name.

In everyone there is a Name;

No ecstasies beyond our heads:

Each alone must tend the fire.

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This week’s theme: Faith

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

9/13: Faith

9/14: Jordyn

9/15: Zechariah

9/16: Swinging Low in Chariots

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Zechariah

September 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 faith, in honor of both the Jewish and Islamic New Years.

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A name poem for a prophet of reason:

Zechariah is consumed by longing

Even as he cherishes his state.

Choosing reason rather than belonging,

He feels the pathos of his complex fate.

A modern prophet must be only human,

Relinquishing the myths of god and tribe.

In visions passionate, he must illumine

A glory that needs neither faith nor bribe,

Having a domain he can describe.

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This week’s theme: Faith

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

9/13: Faith

9/14: Jordyn

9/15: Zechariah

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Jordyn

September 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 faith, in honor of both the Jewish and Islamic New Years.

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A name poem for someone who describes the indescribable:

Jordyn speaks in parables,

Opening a veil,

Rendering beatitude

Dressed up as a tale,

Yielding what one cannot see

Now radiant, but in braille.

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This week’s theme: Faith

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

9/13: Faith

9/14: Jordyn

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Faith

September 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 faith, in honor of both the Jewish and Islamic New Years.

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A name poem for a woman named Faith who has no faith:

Faith finds within her heart a windy sea,

A restless place untenanted by peace,

In which there's neither passion nor release,

The changeless void whose changes never cease,

Having wrought this unwilled will to be.

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This week’s theme: Faith

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

9/13: Faith

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Agostino

September 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 faith, in honor of both the Jewish and Islamic New Years.

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A name poem for a Christian man who lives by his faith.

Agostino has been touched by grace,

Giving him the gifts of faith and love.

Of him it can be said he lives in joy,

Singing thanks and praise beneath each breath.

To see him is to be in his embrace.

In him there is a love no loss can move,

Nor passion still, nor evidence destroy,

Only peace along the edge of death.

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This week’s theme: Faith

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

Aisha

September 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 faith, in honor of both the Jewish and Islamic New Years.

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A name poem for a Muslim woman who lives by her faith:

Aisha is a model Muslim woman:

Intelligent, loving, faithful, modest, kind;

Serving selflessly the words of Islam,

Having held them long in heart and mind;

A soul that seeks, yet knows what it will find.

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This week’s theme: Faith

9/11: Aisha

Sunday, September 9, 2018

O Lord, Our Hope and Our Redeemer

September 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 faith, in honor of both the Jewish and Islamic New Years.

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A prayer for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year:

O Lord, our hope and our redeemer,

Shine Your countenance upon us.

Make us this year worthy of Your love.

Empty us upon the thirsty sand

So that You may fill us

With Your goodness and Your grace.

Strengthen our will to do right,

And make us loving and kind.

Make us the friend of the sparrow

And the refuge of the hawk.

Grant us the gift of knowing

That You are our song and our light.

Help us to sing Your sweet music

And nurture our spark of Your glory.

O Lord, our hope and our redeemer,

Help us to serve You with every breath.

Make us the blade of Your healing scalpel.

Make us the balm You apply to each wound.

Make us a blessing to all we encounter.

And then, O Lord, only then

Grant us one more year of joy.

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This week’s theme: Faith

Long May You Labor at Something You Love

September 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 labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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A Labor Day poem about loving what you do:

Long may you labor at something you love,

Awakening daily to passion and pleasure,

Blessed to find joy both in work and in leisure,

Obliged to move mountains you most want to move.

Remember that work is defined by the heart,

Delightful or not as the laborer chooses.

All life is a game that one wins or one loses,

Yielding what one would with will and with art.

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/7: Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

9/8: Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living

9/9: Long May You Labor at Something You Love

Friday, September 7, 2018

Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living

September 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 labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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A Labor Day poem about the benefits of guaranteed work over welfare:

Let there be a right to earn a living!

All who wish to work should have the chance.

Bad times come and go with circumstance:

Ought we then be hiring or just giving?

Rest assured, there's always much to do:

Demand's determined more by funds than need.

All we give away is wealth we bleed,

Yet work for wages would that wealth renew.

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/7: Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

9/8: Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

September 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 labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem about the political impossibility of a market price for labor:

Let the market set the price of labor!

And who would want to vote for such a life?

Because we live in a democracy,

Our policies are shaped by peaceful strife,

Rewarding those who fight for what they favor.

Despite the logic, what fool would agree,

Alerted to his interest, to turn over,

Yielding neck to economic knife?

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/7: Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

September 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 labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem advocating for a living wage:

Let every worker earn a living wage,

And every family have enough to eat.

Better bellies full of bread than rage.

One finds no better peacemaker than wheat.

Really? Can we get around inflation?

Demand increases; what about supply?

Affluence reduces population.

Yet some prefer to see poor people die.

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This week’s theme: Labor

Labor Is the Burden of Our Being

September 5, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem about the burden and the blessing of labor:

Labor is the burden of our being,

A weight that weds us firmly to the earth,

Blessed servitude that serves a common meaning

On which each may erect a sense of worth.

Remember, then, the beauty of a calling

Demanding both integrity and skill:

A dancer in the drifts of early morning,

Yet traveling towards sunset through sheer will.

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This week’s theme: Labor

Monday, September 3, 2018

Labor Is Identity

September 4, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated yesterday, September 3^rd.

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A Labor Day poem about the need to choose an ethical career:

Labor is identity

As one is what one does.

Beware the work that will not sculpt

One into what one would.

Remember well the bunko bees,

Defined by work that is

Awash in ugliness and guilt,

Yielding little good.

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This week’s theme: Labor

Sunday, September 2, 2018

Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

September 3, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is labor in honor of Labor Day, which is celebrated today, September 3^rd.

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A Labor Day poem about the dual necessity of labor:

Labor is a blessing and a curse,

As one must work to live and live to work.

Better jobs to get up for or worse,

On the whole, with none you'd go berserk.

Remember, then, that dignity requires

Doing, working, laboring -- a role

As giver, as attendant to desires

You recognize within some common soul.

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This week’s theme: Labor