November 23, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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A thirteenth anniversary poem about the balance between luck
and will in determining a couple’s fortune:
The
fortunate have more to thank than fortune.
Hard work, good habits, morals, values, love –
In these one finds the field that yields one’s
portion,
Rich in all that would one’s fortune prove.
There is, of course, some luck that is like lightning,
Energy descending from the sky,
Emerging from a storm, a brutal brightening,
Needing neither rhyme nor reason why.
Yet even lightning has a natural cause.
Every bit of luck, for good or ill,
Adheres to knowable, predictive laws.
Regard luck, then, as wilderness, where skill
Sustains the balance between grace and will.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Anniversaries
11/20: Here’s a Bit of Happiness
11/23: The Fortunate Have More to Thank than Fortune
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