June 19, 2020
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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A Father’s Day poem about how each father must step into the
role of his father and recreate the myth of home for his children:
Home is a myth that must be recreated
As every generation comes of age,
Placed by their own children on the stage
Precisely when their fantasies have faded.
Yet one is more than amply compensated
For playing well the well-wrought saint or sage,
As love wells up beneath the camouflage,
The truth that makes the myth immaculate.
How beautiful it is to be a father!
Emperor forever of a dream
Repeated through the labyrinths of longing
'Mid memories more true than what has been.
Sing, then, of myths that tie one to another
Deep beneath the bulwarks of belonging,
As tales begun before the words begin,
Yet fabricate the worlds in which words mean.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Father’s Day
June 15: Freedom Is a Casualty of Loving
June 16: Happiness Is Served by Celebration
June 17: Happy Father’s Day to a Father-to-Be
June 18: Happy Father’s Day to One Whose Love
June 19: Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated
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