Even Angels Tire of Ecstasy

July 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 angels.

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A name poem imagining the boredom of eternal ecstasy:

Even angels tire of ecstasy.

Very few can stare at God with pleasure

Eons upon eons, as the sea

Lies featureless across its teeming treasure.

Yet we have grace to look and then recover.

No joy but fades, to give way to another.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Angels

7/29: Angels Are Quite Confident

7/30: Even Angels Feel the Pangs of Love

7/31: Even Angels Tire of Ecstasy

Even Angels Feel the Pangs of Love

July 30, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem about angels' vicarious experience of human love:

Even angels feel the pangs of love.

(Vicariously, of course - their love is pure.)

Each finds a human love to serenade,

Leaving its perfection in the shade,

Yearning for the pain it must endure,

Near ecstasy with what it knows not of.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Angels

7/29: Angels Are Quite Confident

7/30: Even Angels Feel the Pangs of Love

Angels Are Quite Confident

July 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem contrasting the innocent lives of angels with ours:

Angels are quite confident,

Now they are on high.

Given whom they represent,

Each appearing Heaven sent,

Let them serve God innocent

As we live and die.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Angels

7/29: Angels Are Quite Confident

What Happens When the Girl You've Always Wanted

July 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 love.

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

A love poem giving advice to someone who has lost his love:

What happens when the girl you've always wanted

Breaks up with you? Are you forever haunted

By thoughts of her with someone else? By the thought

That never, never will you love like that

Again? The jewel of day is gone. You see

Bitter blackness until death. Ay me!

What more can someone in such pain want

Than death?

The girl you've always wanted need not haunt

You long. If she no longer loves you, then clearly

She's not the one. The pain lasts only rarely,

Because a healthy love, like any fire,

Requires a match.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

7/25: Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You

7/26: Although You Are with Someone Else

7/27: I Want You Back Now that You’re Gone

7/28: What Happens when the Girl You’ve Always Wanted

I Want You Back Now that You're Gone

July 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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 begging a loved one to come back after a breakup:

I want you back now that you're gone.

My heart's a pit no love can fill.

I stumble through my days of stone

Bereft of joy, bereft of will.

I could not tell myself I loved

You as I did for fear of pain.

Far easier not to be moved,

Than moved to love, and hurt again.

How stupid! I loved anyway,

And now the blame is all my own.

Please rescue me, this torture stay,

And for my sin I will atone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

7/25: Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You

7/26: Although You Are with Someone Else

7/27: I Want You Back Now that You’re Gone

Although You Are with Someone Else

July 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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 declaring love to someone who loves someone else:

Although you are with someone else,

I want to have my say

Without invading your domain

Or scaring you away.

I respect the choice you made

And all that you decide,

But I would just like you to know

I want you by my side.

As a lake deep in a wood

Awaits a cool, fresh breeze,

I will wait, a patient eye,

As long as love decrees.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

7/25: Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You

7/26: Although You Are with Someone Else

Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You

July 25, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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 about dealing with a separation:

Pretend this poem is me, and I am with you;

I hold you in the circle of my fire.

Come into me, and time and space will vanish,

You and I alone, joined at the root.

There is a special room where I am with you;

I close the door and you are in my arms.

You become my skin, my self, my world,

Till I go back to sleep in lonely darkness.

So we defeat the miles and months between us;

We make love in our hearts if not in touch.

You are more to me in hope and passion

Than any man who brushes by my day.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

7/25: Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You

I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

July 24, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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 apologizing for an indiscretion:

I know I must have hurt you, caused you pain.

More, I know that I have lost your trust.

I wish I had that moment back again

To pulverize my carelessness and lust.

Sometimes we have to lose what we most cherish

To understand how much we are in need.

We play with life until we nearly perish

To dare the darkness, though within we bleed.

I need you as the sun must have a rose

To turn its empty radiance to glory,

Or as a ruin needs someone who knows

The secrets of its long-forgotten story.

I know my need of you more than before;

Thus for my trespass you may trust me more.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

July 23, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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 about the variety of ways in which one loves:

There are many, many ways in which I love you,

As many ways as there are me's and you's:

Some pure, some not so pure, some hard above you,

Some soft and sweet below, some--well, you choose!

We're animal and human and divine

All wrapped in one confused and messed-up ball.

I think sometimes with me it would be fine

If God would just decide to chuck it all.

But see the varied avenues of pleasure

Our multi-layered beings can enjoy!

Your flesh and heart equally I treasure

With all the pent-up anguish of a boy.

I long for both your body and your face;

I need both warmth and heat in your embrace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

July 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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 number and love poem about the color of a loved one’s eyes:

There is a beauty in the color brown

Which brings to mind the quiet warmth of sharing.

Earth tones: roots, ground leafmeal, seeds, and soil;

Nuts and bark, broad rivers thick with toil;

Tree trunks in a clearing, nothing wearing,

Yet holding high their interwoven crown.

For me brown brings to mind your caring eyes,

Innocent and gentle as a doe's.

Vested in your love, my own love grows;

Each thought, each hope, each breath within you lies.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

To Be in Full Bloom Is Not Always Easy

July 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 being in one’s twenties.

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

A number poem about the pleasures and difficulties of being twenty-seven:

To be in full bloom is not always easy:

When at an apex, one has intimations.

Each stage of life is equally precious,

No number of years makes a glance less infectious,

The child unchanging through all perturbations.

Yet there is that which might make a rose queasy.

So naked the night! So painfully luscious!

Each moment limned by unclouded sensations!

Vicissitudes waiting, felicities breezy,

Each day brings one closer to one's limitations:

Never so perfect a time to perplex us!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Being in One’s Twenties

7/15: Twenty Is a Bud That’s Finally Flowered

7/16: Tough and Lovely

7/17: Twenty-Two Worries About Earth

7/18: The Center Stage Is Empty

7/19: Twenty-Five Has Come into Her Own

7/20: Twenty-Six Reserves the Right to Change

7/21: To Be in Full Bloom Is Not Always Easy

Twenty-Six Reserves the Right to Change

July 20, 2019 

Dear Subscriber: 

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is being in one’s twenties. 

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

A number poem about how time begins to narrow one’s possibilities: 

Twenty-six reserves the right to change, 

Well aware the years are in her favor. 

Even as her possibilities 

Narrow to reflect her qualities, 

The open space is something she can savor, 

Young enough to range and rearrange. 

Still, the touch of passing time is strange, 

Interrogating sensibilities, 

X-ing out unsuitable behavior. 

© by Nicholas Gordon 

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This week’s theme: Being in One’s Twenties 

7/15: Twenty Is a Bud That’s Finally Flowered 

7/16: Tough and Lovely 

7/17: Twenty-Two Worries About Earth 

7/18: The Center Stage Is Empty 

7/19: Twenty-Five Has Come into Her Own 

7/20: Twenty-Six Reserves the Right to Change