July 2, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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An Independence Day poem about the true derivation of
rights:
Indeed, from whom or what
are rights derived?
Need we
pin them on some deity,
Dependent
for them on some fragile faith?
Even so,
we cannot do without them,
Predisposed
to fear and rage and greed.
Embrace
them, then, however they arrived,
Nature’s
scaffold for morality,
Destined
to the power of kings replace,
Enduring
truths so salient none should doubt them,
Nor more
nor less than what the heart decreed.
Crafted,
then, by love, to love ascribed,
Each right
is more than mere legality,
Dependent
on a purely human grace,
As those
who love must keep their bliss about them,
Yielding self to a
more urgent need.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)
7/2: Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived
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