Poem of the Week

8/14: Aileen

8/15: Happy Birthday to My Cyber Friend

8/16: You See the Beauty of Your Years

8/17: Darcy Is Five

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

You See the Beauty of Your Years

August 16, 2018

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

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A birthday poem for a parent wishing him or her a bit of silent grace:

You see the beauty of your years,

I hope. With all your children's love,

This day must bring you happy tears

And tranquil thoughts that joyful prove.

I hope, with all your children's love,

There is a refuge all your own,

And tranquil thoughts that joyful prove

Beyond the family you call home.

There is a refuge all your own

Amid the crowds of time and place,

Beyond the family you call home,

Where you are in the grip of grace.

Amid the crowds of time and place,

This day must bring you happy tears.

Where you are in the grip of grace,

You see the beauty of your years.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

8/15: Happy Birthday to My Cyber Friend

8/16: You See the Beauty of Your Years

Happy Birthday to My Cyber Friend

August 15, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday poem for an Internet friend:

Happy birthday to my cyber friend!

As words must be our medium, a poem,

Perhaps, may best my birthday wishes send,

Poems being inner portraits out on loan.

Yet I would be a landscape in the mountains,

Bright sun battering an empty sky,

Immense rock faces answering all questions,

Resolving all in what instead of why.

To you instead I send a humble hope

Hedged with roses swaying in the wind,

Diminutive in eloquence and scope,

A wish for one day beautiful and kind,

Yet with all my heart and wistful mind.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

8/15: Happy Birthday to My Cyber Friend

Monday, August 13, 2018

Aileen

August 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 birthdays.

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A name poem for an eightieth birthday:

Aileen has reached the ripe old age of eighty!

In her there's been much music, song, and dance.

Love like wind on sand designed her life,

Early on a mother and a wife.

Even in late years she's had romance.

Nor has she toiled for less than love and beauty.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/14: Aileen

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Seven Years! That's Not So Long

August 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 birthdays.

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A seventh birthday poem:

Seven years! That’s not so long.

Just the right time for a song.

A happy Happy Birthday song!

If you like it, sing along!

Seven years! Imagine that!

Forty-nine, if you’re a cat.

Good thing that you’re not a cat!

You’d be middle-aged! Imagine that!

Seven years! A long, long time!

But nowhere near as long as mine!

Each year is precious. I like mine,

Grateful for the gift of time.

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

Julie

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A name poem for a child who lived almost to adolescence:

Julie died sometime in her mid-morning,

Unable to take in her afternoon.

Life's an equal gift from dawn to evening,

Infinite in happiness and grieving,

Even when the night falls far too soon.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

8/11: Sarah2

8/12: Julie

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Sarah2

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A name poem about the richness of even a very short life:

Sarah lived a rich, full life

Although she died in infancy,

Reminding us that all of us

Are blessed with life no more than she,

Having touched eternity.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

8/11: Sarah2

Friday, August 10, 2018

I Have One Living Son

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A poem about three children who died in infancy:

I have one living son, Justin,

And two daughters: Letisha and Anastasia.

And three dead sons, my first sons,

Who died because they were too small.

I love them as much as I do the others.

They lived their entire lives within me,

All but a few short, sickly days.

And now I mourn them as I do my other loved ones passed.

Do not think that time together

Has anything to do with grief.

Flesh of my flesh, they are my children.

I think of them often, as I do my parents,

As I would any souls I have loved.

The dead whom we love are like trees on a riverbank:

The river flows by, the trees remain.

Three lovely trees, as tall and thick as any of the others.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Caitlin

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A name poem for a child who died within the womb:

Caitlin lived a long and happy life,

All within the palace of my womb.

If she could not joy to be a wife,

There were some bright colors on her loom.

Let those who mourn remember that she died

In sweet communion with my soul inside,

Nor did she lack for love from bliss to tomb.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

8/9: Caitlin

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

I Cannot Help but Be What I Would Not

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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An angry poem from a mother who miscarried to a father who could not be there:

I cannot help but be what I would not:

A river raging reckless through our love;

But anger is the closest thing I've got

To what far more aggrieved must in me move.

I know quite well that I'm not being fair:

You could not help but be untimely gone.

But unlike you, I could not be but there

To feel our child go dead within my womb.

How you are like the wind, and I the earth

That bears the seed you scatter on your way!

Mine alone the brutal joys of birth;

Yours alone the choice to go or stay.

Despite our love, despite your sympathy,

I know that I in this alone must be.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

Monday, August 6, 2018

To a Stillborn Sister

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A love poem to a stillborn sister:

How do you love a person

Who never got to be,

Or try again to see a face

You never got to see?

How do you mourn the death of one

Who never got to live,

When there's nothing to feel good about

And nothing to forgive?

I love you, little sister.

You're a person of the wind,

Free to be the memory

Of all that might have been.

I love you, little sister,

My companion of the night,

Wandering through my lonely hours,

Beautiful and bright.

What does it mean to die before

You ever can be born,

To live the lovely night of life

And never see the dawn?

Ah! My little sister,

You lived like anyone!

Life's a burst of joy and pain,

And then, like yours, it's done.

I love you, little sister,

Just as if you'd lived for years.

No more, no less, I think of you,

The angel of my tears.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Aryanna

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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A name poem for a stillborn child:

Aryanna died when she was born,

Reminding us how briefly we are here.

Years, like minutes, cannot last for long;

A note is no less precious than a song,

Nor for her early death was she less dear.

Now what we can do for her is mourn,

As she is salient only to our tears.

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Happiness Has Been Your Gift to Me

August 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 anniversaries.

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An anniversary poem about the love that lasts beneath the years:

Happiness has been your gift to me

All these years of melody and pain,

Pleasure, hardship, wanton rhapsody,

Pure delight and hard, wind-driven rain.

Years do not add up to love and glory:

All things rest on non-things far more true.

No note is so sustained throughout our story;

Nothing but your love, and mine for you.

In our lives must always be confusion:

Very little lost in Time is clear.

Even so, the whirlwind's an illusion

Regarding the few things we hold most dear.

So you have chosen me, and in that choice

Alone I find my refuge and my voice.

Reality is made by our own will:

You made my world and hold me in it still.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

8/4: Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

8/5: Happiness Has Been Your Gift to Me

Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

August 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 anniversaries.

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

A thirty-eighth anniversary poem about love and time:

Time, in time, eventually is timeless,

Having flattened out into a sea.

In moments of sufficient mass is oneness,

Reduced to what might seem eternity.

There is in love a similar dynamic

Yielding to the outpourings of years,

Endless end, redemption oceanic,

Infinite home for memories and tears.

Give, then, due thanks for love that lasts forever,

However long that is, a depthless deep

That rests beneath the restless waves of ever,

Happily the one thing you may keep.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

8/4: Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

Friday, August 3, 2018

Happy Second Anniversary

August 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 anniversaries.

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A second anniversary poem about how a couple changes slowly together:

Happy second anniversary!

As time wears on, the newness wears away;

Passion turns to pleasurable play;

Preference becomes necessity.

Years are markers towards a transformation

Slow and unobtrusive as a tide

Elevating vessels side by side,

Changing both, but ever in relation.

On this, your second, then, may you rejoice,

Nestled in the chamber of your choice,

Destined by your love for celebration.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Heaven Isn't Easy

August 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 anniversaries.

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A fifth anniversary poem about the hard work involved in love’s labor:

Heaven isn’t easy. God knows it takes

A lot of work to build a house of love.

Praised be those devoted to love’s labor,

Passing love on to their generations,

Yielding pleasure in return for joy.

For love’s labor’s never lost, but makes

It easier for happiness to prove

Fit for those who would return the favor,

Trading fantasy for brick till the relation

Has roof and walls no wild wind would destroy.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Happy Ninth Anniversary2

August 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 anniversaries.

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A ninth anniversary poem about passion and love:

Happy ninth anniversary!

A moment in the wind,

Pausing to pay tribute to

Passion’s proper end:

Yielding lifelong love.

No lustful seeker could foresee,

If lust from love unwind,

Not able to enjoy a view

That lights life from behind,

How lovely love would prove!

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

Happy Fourteenth Anniversary

July 31, 2018

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

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A fourteenth anniversary poem about the view forward and back from that day:

Happy fourteenth anniversary!

A saddle on the mountain of your lives.

Pause a moment: The landscape that you see

Peacefully unfolds before your eyes.

Years stretch out like fields beneath blue skies.

For you, the way has turned out steep, but still

On the whole both beautiful and kind,

Ultimately wedded to your will,

Resistant though it might have been at times,

The sort of life which one is blessed to climb.

Every day might equally be such,

Embracing past and future in one view.

Nor would in that case this day mean as much:

The heart could, like an actor, use a cue,

Having lifelong feelings to renew.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

Monday, July 30, 2018

Happy Sixth Anniversary4

July 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 anniversaries.

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A sixth anniversary poem about moving from a youthful to a more mature love:

Happy sixth anniversary!

A moment in the sun!

Pleased to praise the passing years,

Pleased to mark each one.

Yet as one yields one's youth to time,

Singing as one goes,

In time one's love accumulates,

X-ing out the woes

That come with doubt and loneliness,

Here where none need pose.

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

Saturday, July 28, 2018

To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope

July 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 fantasy and dream.

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A number poem about the significance of daydreams:

To daydream is to stir the pot of hope.

What we most want is up upon a stage,

Eliciting a self-vicarious pleasure.

Nor should we deprecate such homespun treasure,

The source of much delight at any age.

Years pass, yet dreams with dreamers still elope.

Fear not to dream, for dreams are not mere leisure:

Imagination gives one room to cope,

Vivid in its scenes of love and rage

Even as it makes one's world to measure.

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

7/25: Five2

7/27: Adele

7/28: To Create a World Requires Passion

7/29: To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope

To Create a World Requires Passion

July 28, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem about the joy and pain involved in writing fiction:

To create a world requires passion.

Hollow hours must be filled with beauty.

Immersed in make believe, one sojourns there,

Reduced to ecstasy and then despair,

Then breaks off for some unurgent duty

Yet can’t put down a phrase one would refashion.

One feels writ small the joy of the Creation,

Nor would one trade it for a huckster’s booty,

Even as one lays one’s person bare.

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

7/25: Five2

7/27: Adele

7/28: To Create a World Requires Passion

Friday, July 27, 2018

Adele

July 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 fantasy and dream.

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A name poem for someone who attempts through dreams to shape her fate:

Adele removes the writing on the wall,

Determined to replace it with her own.

Even though no fate may heed her scrawl,

Like a god she wills what will befall,

Ever staking claim to the unknown.

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

7/25: Five2

7/27: Adele

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The Previous Forecasts Are the Current Needs

July 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 fantasy and dream.

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A philosophical poem about the need for fantasy to shape the future:

The previous forecasts are the current needs.

The previous plans are now the policies.

The algorithms of our time and place

Can generate a blueprint of our fates –

Not precisely, but within a range

That in time the outcome will sustain.

Life is shaped by what it cannot be,

The brick and mortar of a fantasy.

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

7/25: Five2

Five2

July 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 fantasy and dream.

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

A number poem about the science-based fantasies of a five-year-old boy:

Five is when the zombie spiders roam

In every nook and cranny of your home.

Velociraptors and colossal squid

Explore the dreams where boogeymen once hid.

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

7/25: Five2

Monday, July 23, 2018

Fortune's in the Eye of the Beholder

July 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 fantasy and dream.

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A number poem about how dreams try out future plans:

Fortune's in the eye of the beholder.

Out of all you were comes who you are.

Rejoice, then, in each moment of your being,

The you, you would not trade one moment for.

Years pass, yet the moment grows no older.

Nor does the yearning of the heart grow colder.

In dreams one tries out fortunes from afar,
Never reaching quite what one is seeing,

Ever drawn to sail across the bar.

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Alfredo

July 23, 2018

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

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A name poem for someone who fills the empty horizon with fantasies:

Alfredo likes to linger in the doorway,

Looking out towards where Earth curves away.

For him space is a muse, inspiring still,

Reverberating through the empty will,

Even as he dreams of icy Norway

Dancing in the dusk of dying day,

Or Spain, whose hot, dry plains horizons fill.

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

Saturday, July 21, 2018

There's No Hurricane

July 22, 2018

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

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A love poem about a vicious, chaotic, ecstatic love:

There's no hurricane

As vicious as my love.

Watch out!

I'll rip off your roof

And scatter your undies all over town.

You'll pay for it

For years.

But you know what?

It'll be worth it!

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This week’s theme: Love

7/20: Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy

7/21: Pascal Meunier

7/22: There’s No Hurricane

Pascal Meunier

July 21, 2018

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

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A love poem for a lover named Pascal Meunier:

The first time I saw him,

In love right away!

My beautiful, blue-eyed

Pascal Meunier.

Ah, Pascal Meunier!

What more can I say?

My beautiful, blue-eyed

Pascal Meunier.

He is the sky

To the wind of my will,

Or the ocean of dreams

Just under my sill;

The word for my meaning,

The name for my song,

My soul and my being

I'll love my life long.

Ah, Pascal Meunier!

What more can I say?

My beautiful, blue-eyed

Pascal Meunier.

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This week’s theme: Love

7/20: Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy

7/21: Pascal Meunier

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy

July 20, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the easy naturalness of love:

Loving you is something that comes easy,

Like walking in the sunshine to a song,

Like being in a place where you belong,

Like finding reasons when you know you're ready.

Nor do I care that working days are dreary,

The pay's a pittance and the hours are long.

Knowing that you love me keeps me strong,

The light within that lets me see life clearly.

Why is love the music of our meaning,

The lilt that makes our labor worth our living,

The loveliness no platitude can bear?

In you I have a harvest past all gleaning,

A gift arrested in the act of giving,

A moment of delight that's always there.

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This week’s theme: Love

7/20: Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy

Love Is a Wind That Drives the Will

July 19, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem from a healthy lover to a sick one about how love might prolong life:

Love is a wind that drives the will

Across the yielding sand.

Although at last the wave must break,

The ride, the ride is grand.

Our love and need and joy are such

That surely we will go

As far, as far as moon and tide

Can still the undertow.

As far, as far as wishes can

Wear rock and stone away,

So love will take us far across

The bar on which we lay,

Far further up the burning sand

Where love farewell might say.

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This week’s theme: Love

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

I'm Not Your Parent, nor Are You My Slave

July 18, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the need for fidelity in love:

I'm not your parent, nor are you my slave.

I wouldn't try to say what you must do.

You alone will judge how you behave,

And do what you consider best for you.

But if you love someone, it means you care

How what you do affects the one you love.

It means sometimes that two in love must share

A hard decision one is certain of.

So if your friend still wants you for his* own,

It hurts me that you want him* for a friend.

Our mutual commitment should be known,

And both of us should such encroachments end.

Love is fragile, delicate, and fine;

To keep it whole, one has to draw a line.

*Feel free to substitute "her" if appropriate.

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This week’s theme: Love

Monday, July 16, 2018

How Can I Persuade You I'm Sincere

July 17, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the need for risk and trust in love:

How can I persuade you I'm sincere,

That my affection equals my desire?

I can tell you what you want to hear,

But there's no way to prove I'm not a liar.

Time may tell, but how much time must pass

Before you are convinced by what I do?

My eyes are eyes, not windows made of glass

Through which you can see clearly what is true.

Love cannot be, but at the risk of pain.

Nothing can be guaranteed to last.

Mere longing leads to neither loss nor gain.

One must bet before the dice are cast.

I know I love you, but you cannot know

My heart unless you trust that it is so.

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This week’s theme: Love