February 24, 2021
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Portraits of Men.
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A philosophical name poem for someone who has withdrawn deep into our common soul:
Alessandro savors solitude,
Looking for connection to the whole.
Each is everyone, and so includes
Such rapture as resides in every soul,
Selfless self, with neither will nor goal.
Anticipating death, he undoes life,
Needing nothing, wanting, wishing nothing,
Delivered from what would engender strife,
Relinquishing all but simple acts of being,
Old conqueror of all that's worth the winning.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/aless2.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html .
This week’s theme: Portraits of Men.
February 22: Adam Is a Model for Us All
February 23: Alan Is an Absolute Delight
February 24: Alessandro Savors Solitude
