Thirty-Eight Is More than Just a Number

November 16, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is philosophy by the numbers.

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A philosophical number poem about the creation of a new infinity every time a child is born:

Thirty-eight is more than just a number,

Having joined through love the flow of flesh,

Inheriting the future, choosing life,

Rejoicing in the wisdom of a wife,

The seed of which the person is the creche,

Yielding what the years cannot encumber.

Even as the tree is not the lumber,

Infinity awaits your will, as such,

Graced to be the cradle of a grief

Howling through the tapestries of touch,

The passion wrapped in swaddling clothes of slumber.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Philosophy by the Numbers

11/11: Solitude Is Never Yours Alone

11/12: Sing of the Sweet Sunlight of the Soul

11/13: Silence at the Center of the Soul

11/14: The Ocean That We Live on Has No Shore

11/15: The Child Was Merely Accidental

11/16: Thirty-Eight Is More than Just a Number