Jayaur

January 31, 2019

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

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A name poem for Jayaur, who has performed one heroic deed:

Jayaur is the hero of the hour,

A man whose courage equaled the event.

Yet he knows the moment soon will sour

As his sweet celebrity is spent.

Underneath the fame so briefly won

Remains for good the good that he has done.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

1/29: Alistair

1/30: Nathan

1/31: Jayaur

Nathan

January 30, 2019

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

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A name poem for Nathan, a sad child who is very much beloved:

Nathan is a child much beloved

Although too often he seems very sad.

Through all the many things we'll never know,

Hope and love can make a child grow

As tall and green as oak in sunshine clad.

Nor should one's heart from patient faith be moved.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

1/29: Alistair

1/30: Nathan

Alistair

January 29, 2019

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

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A name poem for Alistair, a man who likes to show off how much he knows:

Alistair exudes sophistication,

Leaning on his learning as though lame.

Intelligence in him is like a curtain,

Shutting off the windows to his heart.

There is with him no chance for conversation,

As though each point were counted in some game.

Intent on winning, prepped and always certain,

Rest assured he'll flaunt his range and art.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

1/29: Alistair

Riley

January 28, 2019

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

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

A name poem for Riley, a boy who is popular with the girls:

Riley is a boy with auburn hair,

Immensely popular with all the girls.

Love comes easily to one whose curls

Entice the hearts that harbor dreams to spare.

Yet Riley will not soon his young heart share.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

Melba

January 27, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 21.

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A name poem for a multicultural woman:

Melba mixes cultures like bright colors,

Each of which the dappled whole enhances.

Lavish in her love of life, she dances,

Blessed in years, to the tunes of many others,

A wealth of music as the world advances.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

1/22: Love’s a Stream That Knows No Borders

1/23: Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say

1/24: I’m Married to This Muslim Arab

1/25: Mugabe and Mandela

1/26: Beneath the Canopy of Moon and Stars

1/27: Melba

Beneath the Canopy of Moon and Stars

January 26, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 21.

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

A poem about a love between two hostile races:

Beneath the canopy of moon and stars

Two tiny people sit, for now together.

Love binds them, they would like to hope, forever;

But there is much that such a union bars.

Heaven is so vast; the Earth so small,

Yet large enough to stretch a great love thin.

For love to flourish, it must turn within:

To the single soul that unifies us all.

Within this soul the walls of fear dissolve:

Distance, difference, history are no more.

The holy silence stills the sounds of war.

We love as round us miracles revolve.

We know we cannot stay within this shell

Of heaven. We must live back down below.

Day by every day the world we know

Will guarantee we recognize it well.

Yet there are truths far greater than the sun,

Beyond the blanket blue of every day.

In love's dark longings, we will find a way

To make our separate, hostile races one.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

1/22: Love’s a Stream That Knows No Borders

1/23: Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say

1/24: I’m Married to This Muslim Arab

1/25: Mugabe and Mandela

1/26: Beneath the Canopy of Moon and Stars

Mugabe and Mandela

January 25, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 21.

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

A poem contrasting the ways in which two newly-liberated African countries treated their white minorities:

Mugabe and Mandela,

Two strategies for change:

One would whites include;

One would whites estrange.

Murder begets murder;

White murder begets black.

Once one goes for blood,

There's no exit back.

Power unrestrained

By wisdom, love, or law

Leads to even greater

Horrors than before.

Yet letting whites retain

The property they stole

Leaves blacks still dispossessed,

Though equal at the poll.

For wealth is ever power,

Wont to have its way

With those of any color

Who happen to hold sway.

And so the pot still boils

With anger finely honed.

Was violence avoided?

Or was it just postponed?

Mugabe and Mandela,

Two ways to found a state:

One through storms still sailing;

The other drowned in hate.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

1/22: Love’s a Stream That Knows No Borders

1/23: Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say

1/24: I’m Married to This Muslim Arab

1/25: Mugabe and Mandela

I'm Married to This Muslim Arab

January 24, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 21.

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

A poem about an intermarriage of both race and religion:

I'm married to this Muslim Arab,

A lovely woman who wears the hijab.

Our differences dissolve in love

Of God, of life, of one another.

A lovely woman who wears the hijab

Comes naked to my marriage bed.

Of God, of life, of one another,

We then say not a single word.

Comes naked to my marriage bed,

As naked as we are to God.

We then say not a single word,

But silently I thank the Lord.

As naked as we are to God,

Our differences dissolve in love,

But silently I thank the Lord

I'm married to this Muslim Arab.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

1/22: Love’s a Stream That Knows No Borders

1/23: Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say

1/24: I’m Married to This Muslim Arab

Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say

January 23, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 21.

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

A poem about overcoming the obstacles to interracial love:

Love has obstacles enough, they say:

Why add to them the obstacle of race?

Two backgrounds so diverse can't share one space.

Love can't keep the world's harsh truths at bay.

Ah, love! Let such trite wisdom go its way!

All life is difficult yet full of grace.

All men and women share the same small place.

Nor should we out of fear our love betray.

Love is to daily life a vein of gold

Running through the rock like liquid fire,

Making ordinary moments glow.

May we treasure it as we grow old:

The breath that does our dreary clay inspire,

The touch that transforms everything we know.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

1/22: Love’s a Stream That Knows No Borders

1/23: Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say

Love's a Stream That Knows No Borders

January 22, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 21.

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

A poem about how love transcends nationality and race:

Love's a stream that knows no borders,

Passports, visas, lengths of stay,

Laws and papers, rules and orders:

All these lies it sweeps away.

Love knows no color, race, or creed,

Spilling over states at will,

Submerging memory in need,

Drowning walls in waters still.

No bar can block it as it flows,

Tumbling towards eternity,

Gathering wisdom as it goes,

Yearning for our common sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

1/22: Love’s a Stream That Knows No Borders

Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

January 21, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated today, January 21.

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A poem for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday about the never-ending struggle for justice:

Moses never reached the promised land,

And I, too, died upon that distant mountain,

Resting on the laurels of my dream.

There is no end to struggle, no safe refuge

In which one can say, yes, I have arrived,

No longer feel the guilt of privilege,

Let go the fierce anxiety for justice,

Untie the knots of conscience in one's soul.

The promised land's a vision, not a place,

Held within the unrelenting heart.

Each generation must behold its beauty,

Reach for its uncompromising goodness,

Know that its long looked-for realization

Is in a time zone one will never see.

No matter. There's a joy in going forward

Greater than the joy of going home.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

Dylan

January 20, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is winter, both as a subject and a symbol.

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A name poem for a young man who devotes himself to truths beyond time, and who is therefore prepared for winter as a metaphor for death.

Dylan says eternity's his garden,

Yielding the present for precincts better known.

Life goes on, of course, as habits harden

And winter wields the wind to drive him home.

No matter: He has been there all along.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Winter as a Subject and a Symbol

1/14: Winter2

1/15: Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done

1/16: Winter3

1/17: For You There Is No More Enduring Passion

1/18: She Harbored No Illusions

1/19: Twenty-Six3

1/20: Dylan

Twenty-Six3

January 19, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is winter, both as a subject and a symbol.

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A number poem in which winter is a metaphor for a young man’s prediction of hard times ahead:

Twenty-six whistles in the wind,

Well aware of bitter times ahead.

Even in the midst of winter snow,

Needing all the woodcraft he might know,

The young man has no fear or sense of dread.

Yet like us all, of course, he's running blind.

So let the coming years to him be kind,

In which, as good and bad both come and go,

Xerophytes will bloom, by deep springs fed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Winter as a Subject and a Symbol

1/14: Winter2

1/15: Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done

1/16: Winter3

1/17: For You There Is No More Enduring Passion

1/18: She Harbored No Illusions

1/19: Twenty-Six3

She Harbored No Illusions

January 18, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is winter, both as a subject and a symbol.

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A love poem using the phrase “winter’s tale” to mean a sad tale:

She harbored no illusions.

She knew the winter's tale.

On and on the fragile boat

Sailed among the stars.

She managed without hope

But could not part with dreams,

And so as land approached she wept

And drank the bitter sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Winter as a Subject and a Symbol

1/14: Winter2

1/15: Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done

1/16: Winter3

1/17: For You There Is No More Enduring Passion

1/18: She Harbored No Illusions

For You There Is No More Enduring Passion

January 17, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is winter, both as a subject and a symbol.

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A forty-fourth anniversary poem using winter as a metaphor for old age:

For you there is no more enduring passion

Or salient presence in your inner rooms,

Realizing the hopes of brides and grooms,

The deepest bonds that separate souls can fashion.

Years accumulate, the leaves turn ashen,

Forests stand naked as the winter looms.

On frigid mornings, on golden afternoons,

Underneath the roots love finds its ration.

Ravenous once, you now have long been sated,

Yearning still, but from a place called home,

Embracing what you have as what you are.

A choice was made, of course, but now seems fated,

Rendered as a fable writ in stone,

Signaled at your birth by some bright star.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Winter as a Subject and a Symbol

1/14: Winter2

1/15: Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done

1/16: Winter3

1/17: For You There Is No More Enduring Passion

Winter3

January 16, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is winter, both as a subject and a symbol.

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A poem about the dangers of winter’s ice and snow:

Winter wills white whispers into being,

Into frigid air white dancing death,

Needles that can take away one's breath,

Thick, soft flakes preventing one from fleeing,

Ending briefly in bright drifted hills,

Returning with the churning chaff that kills.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Winter as a Subject and a Symbol

1/14: Winter2

1/15: Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done

1/16: Winter3

Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done

January 15, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is winter, both as a subject and a symbol.

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A poem in which winter is a metaphor for death:

Though winter come, thy will be done,

For time must have an end,

And death must serve the wanderer

Who worships but the wind.

The being of a being is

Beyond all space and time.

And yet . . . and yet each being is

A moment with a name.

Ah, wanderer! Do not fear

The loss of joy and pain.

For nothingness is nothing less

Than never having been.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Winter as a Subject and a Symbol

1/14: Winter2

1/15: Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done

Winter2

January 14, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is winter, both as a subject and a symbol.

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

A poem about the restorative effects of winter:

Winter is the world's long sleep,

In which the soil gets its rest,

Naked 'neath its blanket white,

Tucked in for the frigid night,

Earth by bitter north wind blessed,

Restored to life by slumber deep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Winter as a Subject and a Symbol

1/14: Winter2

Sing of the New Morning of Your Life

January 13, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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A number poem for someone who has retired from a job in an unpleasant work environment:

Sing of the new morning of your life,

In which your labor claims its just reward!

Xylophones accompany your song,

The music of the heart that strikes a chord,

Yielding to the sheer joy of the fife!

So may such music smother soon the strife,

Ill-tempered times that will not linger long.

Xylophones heal all still-painful wrong.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

1/8: A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

1/9: Clearly, There Could Be No Better News

1/10: Behold the Mother with Her Newborn Child

1/11: Find Yourself a Purpose and a Goal

1/12: Retirement Is Not Simply What It Means

1/13: Sing of the New Morning of Your Life

Retirement Is Not Simply What It Means

January 12, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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

A poem about various meanings of the word “retirement”:

Retirement is not simply what it means,

Even as it literally means, "withdrawal."

To most, its less than literal sense is plural:

Infinite time to reify some dreams;

Rich, full days of doing as we please;

Enduring pleasures, passions satiated;

Mind and body fully liberated;

Endless hours to sift through memories.

Now, on your retirement, we hope

That of that word you make a lovely trope.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

1/8: A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

1/9: Clearly, There Could Be No Better News

1/10: Behold the Mother with Her Newborn Child

1/11: Find Yourself a Purpose and a Goal

1/12: Retirement Is Not Simply What It Means

Find Yourself a Purpose and a Goal

January 11, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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

A number poem about finding a new purpose for one’s life:

Find yourself a purpose and a goal

Into which you pour your energy,

For there is satisfaction in a role

That makes of life a gift that few may see,

Yet helps sustain the heart’s ecology.

Nor ought your purpose ever be control.

In giving, one relinquishes one’s keys.

No breath can be the wind that moves the whole,

Even as your best may stir the breeze.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

1/8: A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

1/9: Clearly, There Could Be No Better News

1/10: Behold the Mother with Her Newborn Child

1/11: Find Yourself a Purpose and a Goal

Behold the Mother with her Newborn Child

January 10, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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A poem celebrating the birth of a child:

Behold the mother with her newborn child!

An icon of a hope that never dies.

Death may label all we cherish lies,

Yet this love lies too deep to be defiled.

We clear an inner field where fate has smiled,

Letting play the pleasures of surmise,

Holding back all contrary replies,

As though our thoughts might turn the winters mild.

Despite the well-known travesties of time,

Each time a child is born we dream anew,

For only thus our losses are regained.

Though we must share the destiny of slime,

No passion in our palette is more true

Than that which cradles innocence unstained.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

1/8: A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

1/9: Clearly, There Could Be No Better News

1/10: Behold the Mother with Her Newborn Child

Clearly, There Could Be No Better News

January 9, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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

A congratulations poem to a couple who has just announced their pregnancy:

Clearly, there could be no better news.

Of life and love, now there will be more.

Nor can we guess what grace we have in store,

Granted but imaginary views.

Rejoice in the creation of a soul,

A universe again emerged from darkness,

There being nothing, then a veiled vastness,

Unknowable, infinite, and whole.

Let there be again that bolt of light,

Again the wonder and the mystery,

The being that no cause could cause to be,

Incandescent day from utter night!

O children of desire, what have you done?

New-made a universe, another one,

Shard of One too luminous to see.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

1/8: A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

1/9: Clearly, There Could Be No Better News

A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

January 8, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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A poem for a bridal shower:

A marriage celebrates a new beginning:

A couple starting out as man and wife.

A shower celebrates a happy ending:

The last days of a woman's single life.

The wide world now has narrowed to a garden

In which I will my pleasures plant and reap.

The outlines of my character will harden

According to the promises I keep.

My joy will soon become a melody

In counterpoint to those for whom I care,

Seeking a profounder harmony

Than any I alone could know or bear.

So shall I find a greater grace within.

One life is over: Let the new begin!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

1/8: A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

Revel in Your Golden Years

January 7, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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A poem to someone who has just retired:

Revel in your golden years!

Enjoy them to the hilt!

Time has crossed an open sea

Impelled by restless winds.

Remember well the joys and tears,

Each passion run full tilt,

More pain and pleasure than might be

Endured, if not combined.

Now savor in tranquility

The things you leave behind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

Hope Is Not a Harbinger of Peace

January 6, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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A Happy New Year poem about necessary survival of hope and love in a world ruled by hatred and fear:

Hope is not a harbinger of peace

As countless holocausts have made quite clear.

Perhaps the unsolved problem is that fear

Prevents the heart from seeking its release.

Years pass; we come no closer to the good,

Nor do we better understand why we

Each year have hope to live in harmony

While watering our fields with tears and blood.

Yet hope remains, and love, that hope revives.

Each knows well that hatred is insane,

And hates and fears and loves and hates again,

Resolving ever to keep hope alive.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

1/4: Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

1/5: Here We Have Another New Beginning

1/6: Hope Is Not a Harbinger of Peace

Here We Have Another New Beginning

January 5, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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A more cynical Happy New Year poem about understanding that things won’t change:

Here we have another new beginning,

Another chance to be what we are not.

Praised be those who recognize the rot,

Portion out the guilt, and go on living.

Years change far more frequently than we,

Nor are our changes more than painted screens,

Each placed to maximize our meager means,

Windows on a world that none can see.

Yet, truth be told, we know well what's within.

Each resolution fails to touch the heart,

As in the end we are, as at the start,

Remorseful reprobates, half hope, half sin.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

1/4: Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

1/5: Here We Have Another New Beginning

Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

January 4, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem about the need for innocence at least once a year:

Harbingers of happiness, awake!

And dreams abandoned, return from restless sleep!

Past hopes, whom bitter wanderers forsake,

Promise once again what will might reap!

Years turn and turn, at each new turn reborn,

New imagined by redeemers new,

Each in turn vouchsafed a festive dawn,

Wind driven towards a sky of darker hue.

Yearning is of innocence a cause,

Embracing with delight what ought to be,

As once a year even truth takes pause,

Reflecting on what other eyes might see.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

1/4: Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

Happy New Year, Darling

January 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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A Happy New Year poem love poem:

Happy New Year, darling!

Another year gone by!

Peeling off the onion,

Pausing just to cry.

Yet what could be more lovely?

Nestled into need,

Embracing while dancing

Wherever life may lead.

Yearning is a blessing

Even though we have

All we've ever yearned for,

Rendered us by love.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

January 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem about the morality of wishing those in misery well:

Happy New Year! To those who will have none,

A wish that knows too well it cannot be.

Perhaps one ought not wish so futilely;

Perhaps one ought, that such not be alone.

Yearning is the price one pays for hope,

Nor can one hope unless one would endure.

Each futile wish makes paradise more sure,

Widening the world's supernal scope.

Yet there are those who find such wishes cheap,

Easy substitutes for sacrifice.

A wish for good is more than merely nice,

Restoring winds that stir the unguent deep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None