July 18, 2020
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Bastille Day, or the
national holiday of France, which is celebrated on July 14th.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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A political poem about the irony that the moment of
victory often contains the seeds of the victor’s eventual defeat:
The triumph of the victor means
The losses have begun.
To be well-nigh invincible
Is to be on the run.
Power is a current that
Goes swiftly out to sea.
One's will is wind on grass; one's only
Hope is to be free.
Safety lies in wisdom more than
Strength since strength must die,
While wisdom rides the waves beneath which
Sunken victors lie.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Politics
July 13: Darfur/Darfur
July 14: Obama/Osama
July 15: The Last Depression Led to Holocaust
July 17: Richard Is a Restless Dreamer
July 18: The Triumph of the Victor
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