June 6, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is fate, fortune, and free will.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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A philosophical number poem about how one might choose
freely:
Freedom doesn’t come from being free.
One’s choices are not wholly of one’s will.
Reason cannot choose dispassionately,
There being too much sun for it to chill.
Yet one must choose at length, for good or ill.
So what might make one free in such a state?
Enduring choices fostered over time,
Vested in an accidental fate
Embedded in a well-conceived design,
Not free until a servant of some kind.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Fate, Fortune, and Free Will
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