Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands

May 14, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spirituality, in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on May 16^th.

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A number poem about how one might commandeer one’s life:

Time passes like a stream in which one stands.

How strange and beautiful! Life goes by

In moments that run through one’s open hands,

Real in ways that none can clarify,

Though like a dream that only seems to be.

Yet every moment is eternity.

So might one commandeer what life commands,

Infinite beyond all how or why,

X upon a calm and windless sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spirituality

5/14: Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands

M Is for the Miracle of Being

May 13, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated today, May 13^th.

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An acrostic Mother’s Day poem with a separate quality for each letter of MOTHER:

M is for the miracle of Being.

O is for its origin in love.

T is for a tenderness that’s freeing.

H is for a heart no hardships move.

E is the embrace that lights up living.

R is for the recklessness of giving.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

5/11: Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

5/12: Make What You Will of Martyrdom

5/13: M Is for the Miracle of Being

Make What You Will of Martyrdom

May 12, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which will be celebrated tomorrow, May 13^th.

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A Mother’s Day poem about mothers and martyrdom:

Make what you will of martyrdom, a mother

Opts for saintly sacrifice of self,

Taking for her centerpiece another,

Having crossed that great, unquiet gulf.

Each must choose to give herself away,

Redeemed alone by love each hard-earned day,

Sensing grace too beautiful to utter.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

5/11: Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

5/12: Make What You Will of Martyrdom

Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

May 11, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13^th.

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A Mother’s Day poem about hope and time:

Hope is in the hollow of your heart,

A place that’s safe from everyday despair,

Part of you with which you’ll never part,

Part of you that always will be there.

Years pass, your child becomes who she will be,

More herself, less the self you dreamed,

One who is more act, less potency,

Though still no less the gift that she first seemed.

How might you hope as much as years go by,

Even as time offers you less room,

Refusing to ignore the truth or lie

‘Mid gardens still in leaf but past their bloom?

Sing of hope, that is with fortune born,

Desiring joy at night as much as morn,

Alive with dreams and wonder, just as when

You were a child, now no less than then.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

5/11: Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

May 10, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13^th.

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A Mother’s Day poem to the mothers of children who died in the womb:

To the mothers of children who never were children,

Who died in the womb unnamed and unknown:

You also were mothers, albeit but briefly,

And loved with the love given mothers alone.

Yours was the stirring of life within life,

The being of being all one being knew,

The love of a love that knew only your love,

The world to a world that knew no world but you.

Yours the unspeakable pleasure of giving

Your substance to nurture the creature within;

Yours the inscrutable song of creation,

Bringing to being the dust of the wind.

Death is the end, but never the meaning;

Life is a gift, no matter how long.

You, too, are mothers, the bearers of beauty,

The icons of love to whom this day belongs.https://www.poemsforfree.com/tothem.html

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

Happy Mother's Day to Childless Mothers

May 9, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13^th.

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A Mother’s Day poem to childless women who stand in for mothers:

Happy Mother’s Day to childless mothers

Attending to the progeny of others,

Perhaps as aunts or stepmothers or friends,

Pursuing as their own another’s ends,

Yearning still for what will never be,

Making fortune of adversity.

Of course, even children of the blood

Take off in time, returning as they would,

Having their own friends and families,

Embracing or neglecting whom they please.

Remember that the past is never past.

‘Mid tidal tumbling are the things that last,

Submerged beneath the restless ebb and flow,

Days of love stored permanently below.

A gift of love can never be in vain,

Yielding memories that life sustain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

I See You Working Hard for Me

May 8, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13^th.

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A Mother’s Day poem from a daughter of appreciation and understanding:

I see you working hard for me

And wonder what it means:

Whether I will do the same

And give up my own dreams

To offer someone else my world,

A stranger from my womb,

And say: Here, take my life,

So you, not I, can bloom.

I often wonder at the depth

Of that cool sacrifice;

I know it can't be "just because,"

Or simply to be nice.

It is so awesome, I can't think

How I could make that choice,

Except I see something in you

That gives my own heart voice.

I see sometimes a happiness

Amid the stressed-out day

That no one else can hope to know

In any other way.

I feel it when you look at me

And understand sometimes

That things I do, I do for two,

And then your hard life shines.

And when I give you grief, I know

That all the bitter pain

Between a mom and growing child

Is simply like the rain

That alternates with sunny days,

Passion without end,

While underneath is more of life

Than we can comprehend.

And then I know, perhaps, why I

Like you might be so moved

To give my life to someone else,

And know that I have loved.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

May 7, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13^th.

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A Mother’s Day poem comparing a growing child to a tree:

How might one bring to leaf a separate soul,

A seedling with its tree tucked well within,

Placed where rain and sunlight might begin,

Perhaps, to thicken its still slender bole?

Yes, how might one succeed in such a role,

Making sure one’s yang leaves room for yin,

One’s love is nothing seedlings have to win,

The gift that ought not ever be a goal?

How might one allow a tree to grow

Eventually into something all its own,

Reigning over some sweet sunlit glade

‘Mid woods well scattered with its wind-borne seeds?

Sing of the gigantic soul you sow,

Dear sapling many creatures will call home,

As tiny nestlings shelter in its shade

Years from now, when it is thick with leaves.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

Time Diminishes What We Require

May 6, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A number poem about the the lovely sadness of unsatisfied desire:

Time diminishes what we require.

What pain teaches, we learn perfectly.

Each builds a shore around his sea of gladness,

Not losing hope, nor giving way to madness,

Tougher without, within a little shyer,

Yearning always, but settling reasonably.

Often, though, we turn to lovely sadness,

Not willing to let go what we desire,

Even though we want what cannot be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

5/1: The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me

5/4: Loose Change

5/5: Everywhere Are Clocks

5/6: Time Diminishes What We Require

Everywhere Are Clocks

May 5, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A psychological poem about the clocks that surround us:

Everywhere are clocks:

Timers turn leaves,

Tell birds to take off,

Fish to return home,

Restore desire,

Shift scenery in the night sky.

Lions and fish, crabs and virgins

Move to the music of the moon,

As we, too, dance to symphonies

Unheard. The year is a melody.

We sing our lives in harmony

With singers invisible, magical,

Fellow musicians whom we love

But do not know.

The air is alive with chimes

Which summon us to celebrations

At which we feast on tears.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

5/1: The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwelming

5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me

5/4: Loose Change

5/5: Everywhere Are Clocks

Loose Change

May 4, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A psychological poem about the dangers of being too ready to please others:

Loose change (was that lose change?)

Spends easy. Like favors.

Like mornings or afternoons.

Time is easier than touch,

Being there easier than being.

How often, unthinking,

Do I spend a yes

To avoid breaking me?

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

5/1: The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me

5/4: Loose Change

I Doubt You'll Write This Poem for Me

May 3, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A poem from the point of view of someone who lacks self-confidence:

I doubt you'll write this poem for me

Since I so rarely get

The things I set my heart upon,

The things I might regret.

So little do I now expect,

So little hope or fear,

I draw a circle round myself

And find my pleasure there.

I do not like my friends, nor do I

Think that they like me.

Their words are hard, like jagged rocks,

Their treacherous eyes like scree.

Alone I read, I dream, I like

My music loud, I wait

For something that will never come,

I fault my faultless fate.

I throw myself upon your will,

Yet know you will not say

The words that show me to myself

And burn my heart away.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

5/1: The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me

Forty-Nine3

May 2, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A number poem about the pleasures of the imagination:

Forty-nine’s a secret stowaway

On every ship that sails with the wind,

Returning to her satisfying life

To be the person that she left behind,

Yielding to the love that rules her day.

Nor should she, when her ship sets sail, stay

In deference to some dictate of the mind.

None need give up the gift of fictive play,

Enriched by more than any life might find.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

5/1: The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

5/2: Forty-Nine3

The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

May 1, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A number poem about pleasure and longing:

The pleasures of your life are overwhelming,

Having much to do with who you are.

In fact, there are so many things you treasure,

Rewarding you with deep, enduring pleasure,

That you must live beneath some lucky star.

Yet still you yearn for love, for joy, for meaning.

No one can live richly without longing.

In loving life, one reaches past the bar.

Nor can one feel the fullness of one’s feeling,

Embracing gifts no gratitude can measure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

5/1: The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

Abel Jeremiah

April 30, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A name poem about sibling rivalry:

Abel Jeremiah is the younger

Brother of Cierra Juliann*.

Each day he stays awake a little longer,

Limbs flailing as he tries out what he can.

Just a few months old, he is already

Engaged in uninhibited flirtation,

Returning looks with wide eyes bright and steady,

Exploring the terrain of the relation.

Make room for him, Cierra, in your heart!

In time he will become a lifelong friend.

Although he draws all eyes as though by art,

He'll be drawn to your eyes in the end.

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© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

Sometimes Time Cracks Open like a Nut

April 29, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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A poem about love and time:

Sometimes time cracks open like a nut,

Revealing life's meat neatly nestled in.

Between such moments time is like a river

Flowing towards some dark and angry dream.

My love for you breaks through the skin of sky,

Breaks through the dream of time, more real than real.

I choose to anchor life on this fixed point,

A passion deep enough to plumb the sea.

Did this love choose me when we first met?

Was I seized by something more than life?

All I know is through our love I've found

A loveliness more tangible than time.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

4/24: I Never Thought I’d Fall in Love with You

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

4/26: Take It as a Given that I Love You

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

4/28: Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

4/29: Sometimes Time Cracks Open like a Nut

Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

April 28, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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A love poem arguing that love should be free:

Let me love you well, if not too long,

For passion is a lover of fresh air,

Relishing the landscape that is there.

Brief though it be, fulfillment can’t be wrong.

Let me make you part of my sweet song,

As I will be of yours, that both more fair

May part, enriched by what we share,

More seized by life, more gentle, and more strong.

For passion is a gift one should not squander

For fear of loss, losing life's best joy,

The ecstasy that we were meant to feel.

And if it comes and goes, then we must wander,

Enjoying what we're given to enjoy,

Reveling in what our loves reveal.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

4/24: I Never Thought I’d Fall in Love with You

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

4/26: Take It as a Given that I Love You

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

4/28: Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

I Know You in So Many Ways

April 27, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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A love poem about two kinds of love:

I know you in so many ways,

And yet I don't know you at all,

Will never know you,

For you are a mystery impenetrable

Even by love.

Love, like a wave, washes over the sand,

But then must roll back into itself,

Ever dying,

Ever resurrected.

Yet beyond love is another love

Which neither lives nor dies

But simply is --

Within us,

Beyond us,

Which we can touch by holding hands.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

4/24: I Never Thought I’d Fall in Love with You

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

4/26: Take It as a Given that I Love You

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

Take It as a Given that I Love You

April 26, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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A poem in which the poet asks for the truth about a loved one’s love:

Take it as a given that I love you,

And let the conversation go from there.

There isn't much I wouldn't do to please you,

So tell me what to do to make you care.

Tell me what it is that turns you from me,

And why you cannot cherish who I am,

And why you must insist that you still love me

When so much that I do you cannot stand.

The truth is not at all what we imagine,

Reaching regions deeper than our thoughts.

Needs are rarely troubled by opinions,

And love gives no advice unless it's sought.

So plunge into yourself as in a sea,

Then tell me truly what you want of me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

4/24: I Never Thought I’d Fall in Love with You

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

4/26: Take It as a Given that I Love You

My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

April 25, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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A love poem comparing a loved one to the sun:

My lover bathes me in his precious light.

I am the Earth to his all-giving sun.

His needs are burned away in serving mine,

Consumed in the production of his love.

In my awe I'm sometimes forced to wonder:

How can such sweet radiance be sustained?

So selfless is the self in need of need,

So much in love with giving others love.

Still, the sun requires no return.

Light and life come humbly from its fire.

And so I worship him with fruit and flowers,

Grateful for the gift of being near.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

4/24: I Never Thought I’d Fall in Love with You

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

I Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You

April 24, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

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A love poem about discovering what love feels like:

I never thought I'd fall in love with you.

I thought someday, of course, I'd fall in love.

But what it felt like, I just never knew;

I'd no idea what I was thinking of.

And then, somewhere between my need and pleasure,

Walking neither overjoyed nor sad,

I looked into my heart and saw a treasure

Worth more than anything I'd ever had.

Ah! This is love! I thought. And then I wanted

To give my life to see your happiness.

Suddenly, from nowhere, I was haunted,

Needy, joyful, tearful, glad, obsessed.

My love for you has brought me out of me.

The world’s more precious, now that I can see.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

4/24: I Never Thought I’d Fall in Love with You

Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

April 23, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is romantic love.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A love poem comparing the loved one to the sea:

Your soul is like the vastest sea

And mine a darting fish:

I lose myself within your love;

I live within your heart.

I breathe your love: it is my air,

My element, my world.

I know no other ambiance;

I have no other dream.

I know there is outside your love

A world of rocks and sand;

And I could live there, too, but oh!

How poor and thin each breath!

How rich my world, how beautiful,

Alive within your love,

Each moment filled with dancing light

Refracted through your eyes!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

Each Must Save the Earth in Multiple Ways

April 22, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated today, April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the need for political activity to save the Earth.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Each must save the Earth in multiple ways.

A vote can cut more carbon than a bulb.

Rules, like acid rain, can span the globe,

Taking aim at those whom blight won't faze.

Hard as many try, it will not do.

Development devours their mite and more.

An equal sacrifice requires a law.

Yet laws are passed by those obliged to you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 17: Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 19: Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 21: Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

April 22: Each Must Save the Earth in Multiple Ways

Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

April 21, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated tomorrow, April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the self-destructiveness of greed.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even the Earth knows well the market must

Align itself with something more than greed.

Ravenous monsters on the future feed,

Their fangs ripping at Earth's delicate crust.

How might one profit from an empty sea,

Drawing dividends from dying streams?

Although one might find riches at the seams,

Yet none will prosper once the Earth is scree.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 17: Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 19: Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 21: Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 20, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day comparing organized political activity to a rainstorm.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Each of us is like one drop of rain,

A single splatter on the thirsty sand.

Remember, though, that drops fall not alone,

The products and producers of a grand

Harmony that waters well the plain.

Do not think, then, that you're on your own,

A tiny drop upon a dying land.

You are a storm, whose green fields will remain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 17: Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 19: Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 19, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about how profoundly the environment is global.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Environment is greater than environs,

As Sahel sand feeds forests in Brazil,

Russian winters cool Antarctic krill,

The price of phones affects the fate of lions.

How foolish, then, to think in terms of nations,

Dividing what is indivisible,

As though each government could work its will.

Yet melting ice can jiggle Earth’s gyrations.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 17: Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 19: Environment Is Greater than Environs

Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 18, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the survival of life on a devastated Earth.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even if the cities on the coast

Are inundated by the rising seas,

Ravaged dunes and barrier beaches lost

To tides that top steel berms and stunted trees,

Heat reaches for the poles, and life goes on,

Devastated, yes, surviving still,

As in times past whole habitats were drowned,

Yet this time only by an act of will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 17: Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 17, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the communal responsibility for destroying the environment.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Everyone is murdering the Earth.

All equally are guilty of this crime.

Redemption can be had, for what it’s worth,

Though we seem to lack both will and time.

How might we restructure all we do,

Deconstruct millennia of sin,

Adjust our dreams to what we know is true?

Yet we must remake ourselves within.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 17: Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 16, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about replacing power plants with solar panels.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

If each house had a solar panel

Built into its roof,

Incentivized so profitably

That few would stay aloof,

Each would be, just like a leaf,

A mini power plant,

Of which there would be forests that

Would furnaces supplant.

The Earth would breathe again, and keep

Its streams and rivers wild,

Its oceans free of thick, black gook,

Its deserts undefiled.

Oh, yes, there would be power plants,

But few and far between,

As urban forests sprouted leaves

That turned the landscape green.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

For a Year Now We've Been Living Together

April 15, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is for the first anniversary of living together unmarried.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For a year now we've been living together

In something less than marriage, more than friends,

Reasonably happy with each other,

Satisfied to serve our separate ends.

There are no promises, nor should there be,

As we pursue our passions day by day,

Needing only love, which we agree

Need not be guaranteed in any way.

In such a case, there is a case for giving

Very little, just enough to keep

Each even with the common cost of living,

Relating what we sow to what we reap.

So does love die, for love loves not the measure

Allocating carefully its treasure.

Reason may with reason count the cost,

Yet love that is not generous is lost.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

April 14: For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

April 15: For a Year Now We’ve Been Living Together

For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

April 14, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is first anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem comparing the anniversary to the peak of a mountain.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For me this year has been a special mountain,

Incandescent on its sunlit peak.

Revisiting its rich, eventful days,

So full of love, I think with joy of you.

There is no darkness on our lovely mountain

As I gaze from this first blissful peak.

Nothing I imagined yields these days:

Needing, wanting, loving, having you.

In earlier years I thought of this first mountain,

Visioning the vista from its peak,

Enwrapped in fantasies in those days:

Ripples in the darkness without you.

So shall I love you on this yearly mountain

As I gaze from its familiar peak,

Recalling the long innocence of days

Yearning for what I now have in you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

April 14: For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain