For All That You Have Given Me

March 31, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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A Mother’s Day poem from an adopted daughter to her adoptive mother:

For all that you have given me,

I can return but love. For you

Bound up the wounds I did not see

And gave me hopes and passions new.

I can return but love for you,

Whose unmoved faith my heart did move,

And gave me hopes and passions new,

And loved me till I turned to love.

Whose unmoved faith did my heart move?

The mother of my heart, not blood,

Who loved me till I turned to love.

And I became the soul I would.

The mother of my heart, not blood,

Bound up the wounds I did not see.

And I became the soul I would

For all that you have given me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

3/31: For All That You Have Given Me

Happy Birthday, Dearest One

March 30, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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A birthday poem to a newly-adopted child:

Happy birthday, dearest one,

Sweet child of my heart!

We've become one family,

Of which you are a part.

And so I sing out equally

To all of those who are

Mine by blood or fortune blessed,

No more, no less my star!

We are one in love and joy,

In fondness and in worth,

And so as one we celebrate

This day, your day of birth!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

For a Mother, a Daughter, a Teacher, and a Friend

March 29, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is birthdays.

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A number and 50^th birthday poem of thanks to a cultivator of dreams:

For a mother, a daughter, a teacher, and a friend:

In your domain, dreams grow lush and tall.

For cultivating dreams has been your end

Through planting lovely gardens, great and small,

Yielding dreams that unify us all.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

3/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

3/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

3/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

3/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

3/27: For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

3/28: Crystal Loves the Waves

3/29: For a Mother, a Daughter, a Teacher, and a Friend

Crystal Loves the Waves

March 28, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is birthdays.

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A birthday poem for a child whose mother is across an ocean on her birthday:

Crystal loves the waves

And takes them for a ride.

But just right now her mummy

Is on the other side.

As far as she can see

The waves break more and more.

But just right now her mummy

Is on the other shore.

It's a great big ocean

With lots of sharks and whales,

Octopus and sailboats

And big boats without sails,

Polar bears and penguins,

And lots and lots of fish.

But just right now Crystal

Would like to make one wish.

Crystal wishes that

The ocean were a puddle.

Then she could jump across,

And she and Mummy cuddle!

Wouldn't it be nice

If the ocean were a lake?

Then Crystal's mummy

Could have some birthday cake!

Crystal's mummy loves her,

But she is far away,

Far across the ocean

On Crystal's special day.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

3/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

3/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

3/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

3/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

3/27: For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

3/28: Crystal Loves the Waves

For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

March 27, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is birthdays.

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A number and 50^th birthday poem of thanks for a good parent:

For your fiftieth birthday let us sing!

In celebration let your loved ones dance!

Fair seedtime had our souls within your heart,

Taking joy from lucky circumstance.

You gave to us a gentle, loving spring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

3/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

3/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

3/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

3/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

3/27: For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

Birthdays Are the Tolling of

March 26, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is birthdays.

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A birthday invitation in the form of a poem:

Birthdays are the tolling of

A bell that marks the coming of

A time of festive joy and love,

A time to treasure life and love.

So come and celebrate with me

The circumstance that makes me, me:

The moment when I came to be,

And what I now have come to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

5/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

5/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

5/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

Happy Birthday, Darling

March 25, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is birthdays.

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A birthday poem to a former lover who is now with someone else:

Happy birthday, darling!

Although you're not with me.

Right now you are with someone else

Temporarily.

I know I am the wild cat

Who'll get you in the end,

Not only your hot lover, but

Your best and truest friend.

So have a happy birthday

And remember my sweet kiss.

It's waiting for you when you turn

To me, your choice for bliss.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

5/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

5/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

March 24, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is birthdays.

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A birthday poem to a reluctant celebrant:

For you, my love, the happiest of birthdays!

Let this be a day your soul shall sing,

Rejoicing in the pleasure that this one day

Must to all who love you surely bring!

You, who give so much, should now be taking

What affection we poor souls can show.

Understand this little fuss we’re making

Is only what mere mortals can bestow,

Touched by love far deeper than we know.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

5/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

Birthdays Are an Annual Excuse

March 23, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is birthdays.

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

A name and birthday poem from one sibling to another about having the opportunity to say “I Love You”:

Birthdays are an annual excuse,

A way of saying things we ought to say.

Relatively few can sing their love

Unless they do it on some special day.

Hearts are shy, and words of little use.

But now I want to tell you that I love you,

Open up my heart and say the things

Siblings seldom say to one another

'Cause of the embarrassment it brings.

How lovely that I can say this to you!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

Let Me Steal You from the One You Love

March 22, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which began yesterday, on March 21.

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A love poem in which the lover asks the loved one to try him or her out:

Let me steal you from the one you love
In hopes that as time passes you'll love me.
So deeply does your smile my heart move
That merely touching you is ecstasy.
Normally, such crimes are not my style,
Nor would I infidelity propose;
But I love you so much I can't revile
Anything that some slight hope bestows.
Let me show you how I'll care for you,
How good it feels to have me at your side,
How spring eternal I'll make ever new,
And every want or passing whim provide.
Try me out. I promise you'll be mine
Once you see how bright my sun can shine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

5/18: Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

5/19: There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

5/20: There Is No Greater Paradise

5/21: Twenty-Eight’s a Rose in Perfect Bloom

5/22: Let Me Steal You from the One You Love

Twenty-Eight's a Rose in Perfect Bloom

March 21, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins today, March 21.

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A number poem about a young girl filled with delight in life: 

Twenty-eight's a rose in perfect bloom

Weathering a mild, sunny spring.

Each day sustains a rapture deep and blue,

No hint of ultimate darkness seeping through,

Though roses are well-versed in suffering.

Yet now, for happiness, there's ample room.

Even mystic lovers of the night

In darkness feel the same rhapsodic madness

Given all who keep the sky in view,

Heaven light or dark, in joy or sadness,

The lovely rose afire with delight.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

5/18: Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

5/19: There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

5/20: There Is No Greater Paradise

5/21: Twenty-Eight’s a Rose in Perfect Bloom

There Is No Greater Paradise

March 20, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins tomorrow, on March 21.

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A philosophical poem in which spring is a symbol of the eternal beauty that lies beneath the brutal wind and snow of the everyday world:

There is no greater paradise

Than simply being here.

The proof is in the agony

That willingly we bear.

A moment is beatitude;

A year, eternal grace;

A life, a window wide upon

The transcendental face.

Our gratitude's ubiquitous,

The stuff of every day,

The ground bass of an ecstasy

That never goes away.

And yet . . . and yet this wonder lies

Like grass beneath the snow:

Above we fear the brutal wind,

Eternal spring below.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

5/18: Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

5/19: There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

5/20: There Is No Greater Paradise

There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

March 19, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins on March 21.

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A poem about death, grief, pain, and love:

There is in grief a saving grace,

A melody of love

So beautiful no angel could

A mourner's heart so move.

The pain is just a measure of

The value of the loss,

A gift that will remain a gift,

For life can be no less.

The love's not lost, nor will it be

Eroded by the wind,

But will become the soil in which

You plant new seeds each spring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

5/18: Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

5/19: There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

March 18, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins on March 21.

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A Mother’s Day poem in which spring melts the snowdrifts that cover the secrets of time:

Maybe time is like a snowdrift. Spring

Opens up its secrets. And perhaps

There you find what you've been looking for.

Harsh winters wait, of course, but there are more

Ecstasies than sorrows under wraps,

Retained in drifts till their awakening.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

5/18: Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

March 17, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins on March 21.

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A name poem for a child who is compared to dawn, spring, a rainbow, and a song:

Casey is a bit like dawn or spring,

A wonder, like a rainbow or a song.

So little flesh can so much pleasure bring!

Each of us may ponder right or wrong,

Yet here is the reply for which we long.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

March 16, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins on March 21.

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A name poem wishing a young girl a beautiful youth:

May you have a warm and gentle spring,

A youth that winds through rainbow fields of flowers

Yearning for the beauty in your heart.

Let your memory hold these morning hours

Even as the last sweet thrushes sing,

Even as your yearning turns to art,

Nor shall you lose this grace to suffering.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

Fate Is a Consortium

March 15, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate.

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A philosophical number poem about the nature of fate:

Fate is a consortium

In which participate

Fortune, will, inheritance,

Thoughts, dreams, loves, ideals.

Years provide a stadium

For a prolonged debate

In which each day one’s innocence

Versus one’s experience

Establishes what’s real.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

5/12: Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

5/13: Destinée Finds Destiny Appealing

5/14: Nineteen Is a Moment for Reflection

5/15: Fate Is a Consortium

Nineteen Is a Moment for Reflection

March 14, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate.

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A number poem about a time of life when one seems able to choose one’s fate:

Nineteen is a moment for reflection:

Instead of rushing on, one stops and waits.

Now one contemplates a range of fates,

Even some quite likely for rejection.

The future is a vista, vast and teeming,

Eloquent of latitude and choice.

Eventually, one must find one's voice;

Now, however, there is room for dreaming.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

5/12: Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

5/13: Destinée Finds Destiny Appealing

5/14: Nineteen Is a Moment for Reflection

Destinee Finds Destiny Appealing

March 13, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate.

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A philosophical name poem for Destinee, who runs smack into her own destiny:

Destinee finds destiny appealing

Even as she knows that she is free.

Success then brings her to the stained-glass ceiling

Telling her what is, or not, to be.

Immensities return her quiet keening,

Nor more nor less than what she knows is true:

Eventually, she must surrender meaning,

Exactly as it was her fate to do.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

5/12: Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

5/13: Destinee Finds Destiny Appealing

Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

March 12, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate.

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A thank-you poem to someone who has been like a guardian angel:

Thank you for being our guardian angel!

Having come to our rescue in our time of need.

Angels love people as parents love children,

Nor could we a better have found of the breed,

Knowing how hard such a one is to wangle!

Yet you, with your wings and your halo half-hidden,

On us have descended with glory unbidden,

Undoing the darkness our fate had decreed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

5/12: Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

March 11, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate.

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A philosophical number poem about an infinite love that enables one to open oneself to fate:

Forty-six has much to celebrate,

Open as she is to wind and song,

Riding what rough beasts might come along,

Traveling through the wilderness of fate

Yet knowing that the soul is ever young.

So may she weather well the storms of state

In love that lies beyond all joy and longing,

Xerox of the unknown infinite.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

March 10, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate.

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A philosophical name poem for someone who has had to struggle with the burden of a chronically ill older sister:

Perhaps you think you never will recover.

Abysses in your heart disturb your pleasure.

Underneath each sunlit ecstasy

Lie shadows of the fortunes of another,

A fate that's both your burden and your treasure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

March 9, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate.

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A philosophical number poem for someone who, like a seed, has been blown by the wind to a distant patch of ground.

For what have you arrived upon this shore?

In search of what did you once set your sail?

For you there always has been something more

That ought to for some greater good prevail.

Yet life so often tells a different tale.

So are we like seeds upon the wind,

Each planted where we fall by willing chance,

Vested in a fate we can’t rescind,

Enveloped in the soil of circumstance,

Now blooming, if we would, as passion grants.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

Undo Me, My Garments Are in Pain

March 8, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epitaphs.

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An epitaph for an uncle who lives on in others:

Undo me, my garments are in pain.

Now I must crawl naked to your heart.

Can I not find there a place to lie?

Lovers' kisses linger when they part.

Even so, shall I with you remain.

Life's not flesh, nor does it end with death.

Its force, still radiant, fills each empty place.

Gone the star, the light still strikes the eye;

Gone the flesh, the soul retains its grace.

Your life, your love, your joy--these are my breath.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

5/5: Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

5/6: Do Believe I’ll Never Leave You

5/7: My God Was the Future

5/8: Undo Me, My Garments Are in Pain

My God Was the Future

March 7, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epitaphs.

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An epitaph for a former American Communist who defines his legacy as a passion for good:

My God was the future. I'm with Him now,

As inchoate as we must always be,

Xeroxing my position on eternity.

Go find me in the future of your dreams,

Or in the box wherein you hide your zeal;

Remember me when fear says what is real,

Dictating truths to which your hopes must bow.

Only fierce passion a misplaced heart redeems:

Nothing less shall be my legacy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

5/5: Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

5/6: Do Believe I’ll Never Leave You

5/7: My God Was the Future

Do Believe I'll Never Leave You

March 6, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epitaphs.

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An epitaph for Dada, who will always be near his children:

Do believe I'll never leave you:

Always I'll be in your heart.

Don't forget my soul is near you,

And we'll never be apart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

5/5: Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

5/6: Do Believe I’ll Never Leave You

Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

March 5, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epitaphs.

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

An epitaph for a sportswriter who helped integrate baseball:

Life blessed me with a sunny disposition

Even as I lived through terrible storms.

Sport was my passion; justice was my mission.

The world, I thought, was something one reforms.

Embrace it, then, with all your warmth and joy!

Rebel, as I did, for, and not against,

Resolving to create, not to destroy,

Open-armed and loving, not incensed.

Delight, exuberance, a child's wonder --

Not naively did I these display.

Even though the wide world split asunder,

Yet one needs to live and love and play.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

5/5: Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

Let Others Speak of Hell -- I Speak of Courage

March 4, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epitaphs.

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

An epitaph for a woman who endured her life-long mental illness with both courage and delight:

Let others speak of Hell -- I speak of courage:

In one there's inspiration for the other.

Nor need despair of Heaven one's life ravage:

Demand enough of Hell, and it rolls over.

All I suffered was what I endured,

For me a source of pride as well as pain.

Restored by love, I never could be cured:

Ill for life, but not alive in vain.

Enter bravely into my delight,

Dreadful though might be my manic mind.

More is known by feeling than by sight

As even darkness has its own sweet light;

Nor did I die but by my own design.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

March 3, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epitaphs.

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

An epitaph about love as a continuation of life after death:

Just as love in life can lessen pain,

Even more it soothes the pain of death.

For you our love must come and go like rain;

For me it is my heart, my word, my breath.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

Be Patient with Life

March 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epitaphs.

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

An epitaph in which the deceased asks loved ones to remember him with joy:

Be patient with life, despite its cruelty.

Often it seems careless of our pain,

But just as often brings us hope again.

Remember, I wanted happiness for you.

Under every foolish word this still was true.

Be happy, then, without, as you would with me.

In your life many sweet events remain.

Not in anguish, but in joy remember me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

Samantha Is a Lover of the Mist

March 1, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is portraits of women.

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A name poem for a shy, memorable woman known by few:

Samantha is a lover of the mist:

An exotic orchid seen by very few.

Most stray along a path, content to view

A narrow swath of the glories that exist.

No one who sees Samantha soon forgets

The quiet dreaming of her careful words,

Her iconoclastic thoughts, like small, bright birds

Alight on thick, dark tangles of regrets.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

2/24: Larianna’s Beautiful and Blonde

2/25: Stephanie Finds Her Proper Place in Pain

2/26: Cindy Is a Girl You Ought to See

2/27: Veronica’s an Image of the Truth

2/28: Angela Retains Her Cherub Face

2/29: Jeanne Dances in the Doorway of Her Home

5/1: Samantha Is a Lover of the Mist