January 18, 2020
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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An anniversary poem about the need to give up the desire for
power if one is to love:
Heaven isn't known for being easy.
Although the door is
open, few desire
Peace and inner
glory, ecstasy,
Purchased through
the sacrifice of power.
Yet there are those
who find their way through love.
After all attempts
at ecstasy--
Nocturnal, furtive,
loyal, desperate, easy--
No hunger is
diminished, nor is love
Inviolate in the
sunburst of desire.
Venery's delight
derives from power
Etched into the
grinning face of love.
Rarer is unbidden
ecstasy,
Simple as delight
free of desire,
A nakedness that
masquerades as easy,
Removed from the
necessities of power.
Yet there are those
who find their way through love.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Anniversaries
1/18: Heaven Isn’t Known for Being Easy
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