September 6, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is work in honor of Labor Day, which was
celebrated on September 2.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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A name poem to someone forced into retirement:
Just think about desire and
circumstance:
One might make of fortune what
one would.
However things turn out by choice
or chance,
No devastation lacks some seeds
of good.
Maybe one enjoyed one’s sense of
power
Employed in the pursuit of some
ideal,
Liking well one’s presence in
each hour,
Engaged in matters more intensely
real.
No doubt. But one has much that
one might treasure,
Days of useful work and days of
pleasure,
Enjoying children, grandchildren,
and wife,
Zestful still, and full of vivid
life.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Work
9/6: Just Think About Desire and Circumstance
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