A calendar poem for April:
April is quite
conscious of his beauty,
Poised to sing a more idyllic song.
Regrettably, he sometimes gets it wrong
In coming on delayed a bit too long,
Losing all sense of his springtime duty.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Dancing
Star. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
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A
poem for St. Patrick’s Day about the virtue of priestly celibacy:
Sublimation
is a transformation,
Turning objects of one's lust to souls,
Perhaps not wholly holy -- priests are human,
And even Christ knew hunger and desire.
The vow of celibacy, like that of marriage,
Restricts as it enormously enriches,
Inhibits as it frees, resolves, renews,
Celebrates love, all love, every love,
Knots the nots that open wide the heart.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Emotional
Love Theme. By Biz Baz Studio. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI
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A
calendar poem for March:
March marches to
the beat of her own drum,
Angry in
the way of eager youth,
Rebelling
against the adult she’ll become,
Challenging
the too-long-frozen truth.
How
beautiful, though raucous and uncouth!
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Buccaneer’s
March. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI
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A
Valentine’s Day poem comparing love to a garden:
Vast
the possibilities of fortune,
And
one the reckoning of choice and chance.
Love’s
a garden sown with seeds of passion,
Eden
in the sunlight of romance.
Nor
ought one see this as a limitation:
The
garden is a universe, and fate
Is
fertile soil fit for cultivation,
Needing
long-term care that cannot wait.
Each
universe exists in time and space,
‘Mid
miracles and troubles, toil and tears.
So
are you my universe, my grace,
Dancing
through the cosmos of my years.
As
one is One, one’s all that one can know,
Yet
love of one’s a garden two can grow.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Dancing
Star. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI
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A poem for Holocaust
Remembrance Day:
Holocausts are sui
generis.
One sees in all the same totality.
Lest one think they're not so numerous,
One finds some in Deuteronomy.
Can the annihilation of Sihon,
An utterly explicit genocide,
Under God's command to overrun
Some lands where only Jews might now reside,
Thus stated be aught else? How can a Jew
So soon, so soon, such nightmares still pursue?
© by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Parzival.
By William Rosati. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI
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go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/holoca.html. For more poems about Jewish history and culture, go
to https://www.poemsforfree.com/jewishpoems.html .
A calendar poem for January:
January waits,
unsentimental,
Again born
into beauty, cruel and kind.
Nor cold
nor darkness fools the wily child,
Unweeping
in a brutal wind and wild,
As the
Earth turns passionless and blind.
Rejoicing
in her birth, she dons the mantle,
Yearning to
recall what lies behind.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: A Revelation. By Jeremy Blake. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI.
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