Gifts Come in Many Shapes and Guises

January 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is pregnancy and childbirth, in honor of the birth of a new year.

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

A poem about adopting a new-born infant:

Gifts come in many shapes and guises:

Apples meant to nurture seeds

Wind up in many strange disguises,

Ministering to other needs.

When a soul comes into being,

Hope anew springs from the Earth:

No one has the gift of seeing

What new gift comes with each birth.

What brings a young girl savage pain

Can bring joy to a man and wife:

One cannot weigh the loss or gain,

But one can always treasure life.

Life's a gift beyond what we

Can know or understand or say:

There's a nonstop ecstasy

Beneath the hum of every day.

There's a love so radical

That nothing can escape its glow,

Luminous and magical,

Everywhere we are or go.

And so we take this gift of love,

A little piece of it, new-born,

And feel some lovely fortune move

Within us towards eternal dawn.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth

12/30: Creation Is the Proper Form of Love

12/31: Evidence of Paradise

1/1: There Is No Greater Miracle than This

1/2: Gifts Come in Many Shapes and Guises