Have Another Look at What You've Done

November 19, 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 https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

A fourteenth anniversary poem about love as the antidote for the toxins of life:

Have another look at what you've done
And then rejoice at all the good you see,
Pleased with how you've whittled what might be,
Pleased with seeds you've planted one by one!
Yet there are many toxins still to come
Floating on the tides unnaturally
Out of greed or ignorance as we
Unravel mysteries of rain and sun.
Remember that the antidote is love
That one administers in every act,
Embracing life and beauty and each other.
Each act of love one poisoned drop removes,
Now by example, eloquence, or fact,
To heal some grace that else we might have lacked,
Here for all who would such gifts recover.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/havea6.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html.

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
November 16: How Can I Tell You More than I Can Know
November 17: Have an Angel Assigned to Your Account
November 18: Happy Thirteenth Anniversary
November 19: Have Another Look at What You’ve Done