Poem of the Week

5/10: You Took Us In and Loved Us as Your Own

5/11: There Is No Field as Fertile as Your Love

5/12: Mothers Make the Most of Memories

Saturday, May 11, 2019

There Is No Field as Fertile as Your Love

May 11, 2019

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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 12.

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A Mother’s Day thank-you poem from a child who is about to leave home:

There is no field as fertile as your love.

How can I hold back my grateful tears?

All your gifts my heart takes notice of,

Now that my departure from you nears.

Know that I remember the caresses

You absently bestowed upon my hair,

Or in the dark a thousand, thousand kisses

Upon my cheek to tell me you were there.

Most of what you've done for me, like flowers

Of a season, sprouted, bloomed, and died.

The memories of all those faithful hours,

However, helped shape who I am inside.

Eventually, everything we do

Returns to us, as now my love to you.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

5/10: You Took Us In and Loved Us as Your Own

5/11: There Is No Field as Fertile as Your Love

Thursday, May 9, 2019

You Took Us In and Loved Us as Your Own

May 10, 2019

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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 12.

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A Mother’s Day poem to a woman who raised someone else’s children:

You took us in and loved us as your own

Though you were old enough to need some rest.

Now you are eighty and alone,

Rattling on within your empty nest.

Though we no longer live within your doors,

You will always live within our hearts.

I think of you, and that sweet thought restores

My happiness, as my own Red Sea parts.

This you've done for me, more than the toil,

The prostrate nights, the scarce funds spent, the pain:

Your love and selflessness have been the soil

In which my life can always bloom again.

I cannot think what I would do or be

Without the love that you have given me.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

5/10: You Took Us In and Loved Us as Your Own

A Love like Yours Deserves Some Celebration

May 9, 2019

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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 12.

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A Mother’s Day poem celebrating aunts:

A love like yours deserves some celebration,

Untying the occasion from the womb.

Nor need this day serve only one relation,

There being for such homage ample room.

Sing, then, of aunts, who help make children bloom.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

We May Be like Leaves upon the Wind

May 8, 2019

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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 12.

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A Mother’s Day poem from adult children who have moved away to various distant places:

We may be like leaves upon the wind,

Each dancing towards our fated patch of earth,

Leaving in a gust of slanting rain

Or at some sunlit touch, our place of birth.

Vivid memories of life at home,

Early love, most vivid love, of you,

Your arms the world, your touch our organ tone:

One sea of bliss beneath all that we do,

Unloosing tears as dark and wide we roam.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

Monday, May 6, 2019

Here Are All Your Children in One Place

May 7, 2019

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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 12.

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A Mother’s Day poem accompanying the gift of a photograph of all of a mother’s adult children:

Here are all your children in one place,

Enshrined behind some glass within a frame.

A picture's like a word, a sign, a name,

Symbolic of a much more complex grace.

Years of memories lie behind each face,

A wild sea no blessing can contain;

Years and years of love, of joy, of pain,

Of mysteries no heart can hope to trace.

Here are all the objects of your love,

A frozen section cut away from Time,

A summit between dreams and memories,

Which you need only look this way to climb;

An icon for domestic reveries

Through which a thousand answered prayers move.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

Sunday, May 5, 2019

There's No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

May 6, 2019

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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 12.

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A Mother’s Day poem addressed to a mother about the beauty of her love:

There’s no love sweeter than the love you feel,

No passion that’s more passionate than yours,

No joy more beautiful, no grace more real,

No wonder more beyond both woe and weal,

No pleasure with a more abundant cause.

There’s no love sweeter than the love you feel,

No laughter that would wounds more quickly heal,

No sunshine that would give more troubles pause,

No joy more beautiful, no grace more real.

For mother’s love is like a sailboat’s keel

That reaches deep to brace a bliss that soars.

There’s no love sweeter than the love you feel,

No insight that would greater truths reveal,

No wisdom that would tender higher laws,

No joy more beautiful, no grace more real.

For your love is the love that turns the wheel,

And to each generation life restores.

There’s no love sweeter than the love you feel,

No joy more beautiful, no grace more real.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Good God! I Never Dreamed You'd Graduate

May 5, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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A graduation poem from someone who didn’t graduate to someone who did.

Good God! I never dreamed you’d graduate!

Remember when we both flunked chemistry,

And got by math and bio with a D,

Drunk the night we planned to study late?

Unless I’ve got it wrong, you then dropped out,

And took off a semester -- or was it two? --

To work full time. I lost sight of you,

Intending to call, but too screwed up, no doubt.

Our competence is wholly in our care.

Now I’m still here, and you? Well, you’re up there!

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

5/4: Make Your Mark upon the World

5/5: Good God! I Never Dreamed You’d Graduate

Make Your Mark upon the World

May 4, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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A graduation poem in which the institution speaks to its graduates of their intertwined fates:

Make your mark upon the world!

The marker comes from here.

March on life with flags unfurled!

Your provenance is clear.

You are our product, carrying

The sanction of our seal.

We are your foundry, marrying

Our knowledge to your zeal.

What you make of it is yours,

But it is also ours.

For what you do beyond our doors

Documents our powers.

Do it well, for both of us!

Our fates are intertwined.

Make your mark, for only thus

Might we sweet favor find.

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

5/4: Make Your Mark upon the World

Friday, May 3, 2019

Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

May 3, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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A thank-you and graduation poem thanking teachers for the gift of their knowledge:

Thank you for being where all these years went.

Happiness comes from the people we are,

And so much of what we are now comes from here,

Nearby our hearts still, our minds still ajar.

Knowledge is wealth that can never be spent.

Years from this day, as we search for some star,

Over us clouds, our harried heads bent,

Unthinking, some long-ago wind will skies clear.

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

Thursday, May 2, 2019

The Parents of a Graduate

May 2, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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A thank-you poem from the graduate to his or her parents for their love:

The parents of a graduate

Have much they should be proud of.

All ought to congratulate

Not our work, but their love.

Know that you have made me, me;

You shape my efforts still.

Out of your sweet certainty

Unaltered came my will.

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

May 1, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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A graduation poem about the significance of the learning that led the degree:

The pride I feel is nothing like the pride

Of one who's made it through the thousand gates

That stand between one's hopes and one's degree.

How much have you learned? And what inside

Equals your diploma, which equates

Grades and credits with reality?

Remember: Your achievement is not only

A tribute to the things that you have done,

Determined as you have been to succeed.

Underneath the sign is still the story,

A tale of what through learning you've become,

The graduate to those who records read,

Even as you sail to shores unknown.

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

April 30, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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A graduation poem about the challenges that await:

The years of getting ready are now over.

On you now lies the burden of your life.

The teachers that await you will be tougher,

Having need to use you for their wealth.

Even so, you stand upon tall shoulders,

Granted the sweet chance to be prepared,

Ready to assume the work of others,

Anxious for the wind that bears your word.

Do well, my dear one! All my love goes with you

Underneath the rhythm of your day,

An organ tone that will not wane or waver

Though you run through the gates that mark your way,

Exultant in your work as in your play.

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

Monday, April 29, 2019

These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

April 29, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A thank-you poem from a graduate to his or her family:

These past few years have not been easy for me.

How I made it through them, I can't say.

All your love has helped me reach this day.

Now I cast my thanks upon your sea,

Knowing of the love that's there for me,

Yearning all these years for what’s now mine.

Only in that love can I define,

Unloosing all my fears, my self-to-be.

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Zion National Park

April 28, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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A poem about the beauty of Zion National Park:

Zion Canyon is the work of water

In concert with the winds that shape the heart.

One sees a grandeur equal to one's wonder;

Nor can one be, but of such grace a part.

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/23: Global Warning

4/26: Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

4/27: Bryce Canyon National Park

4/28: Zion National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park

April 27, 2019

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A poem about the beauty of Bryce Canyon National Park:

Bryce Canyon is a crumbling sculpture garden

Resting in a giant cup of stone,

Yielding in a golden wash of sun

Colors so intense as to awaken

Embers of a love from time unknown.

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/23: Global Warning

4/26: Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

4/27: Bryce Canyon National Park

Friday, April 26, 2019

Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

April 26, 2019

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A number poem about the harmony between humans and their environment before the domestication of plants and animals:

Twenty-five remembers when the world

Was not our slave, when rivers danced and sang

Entering their gauntlets, when grass and fire

Needed each other, and earth and flood. The choir

Then sang full throated, the food each season sprang

Yet thrashing to the feasts of those who served.

For thousands of millennia we lived

In harmony with those we ate, their spirits

Vested momently in flesh, their avid

Embers still in love with those who grieved.

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/23: Global Warning

4/26: Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place

April 25, 2019

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A number poem about the psychological significance of wilderness:

Thirty-two guards well a sacred place,

Hallowed not by faith but by raw beauty.

In wilderness one finds an ancient other,

Remnant of a long-forsaken mother,

To safeguard which is both a joy and duty.

Years pass, yet he will guarantee this grace.

Tough and succulent, bare-boned and fruity,

Wilderness presents the world full face,

Over which no qualm has thrown its cover.

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/23: Global Warning

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Mountains Mark the Boundaries of Our Dreams

April 24, 2019

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A poem about the psychological significance of mountains:

Mountains mark the boundaries of our dreams.

Over them lies nothing more than Heaven.

Use them to take well your wistful measure,

Nor can you enter them without the pleasure

That comes from being dwarfed by one great given,

As Being becomes just the God it seems.

In awe one finds a tonic for the soul,

Needing to pay homage to the whole,

Silent angel swelling sacred streams.

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/23: Global Warning

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Global Warning

April 23, 2019

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A poem about our responsibility to save all of life from our destructive ways:

Global warning,

Likening us to lichens

Or pairing us with pandas

Because we are bone of one bone

And flesh of one flesh:

Life can end.

What would we?

Are we driven to be driven?

Revved to rev?

Need we what we need?

If each cell is a cellmate,

Now all may lose all,

Given that life is not a given.

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/23: Global Warning

Sunday, April 21, 2019

And These Are the Islands

April 22, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated today, April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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A poem about the increasing destruction of hurricanes and typhoons due to global warming:

And these are the islands, tiny green drops

On the broad bright blue canvas of tropical seas.

And these are the great white wheels spinning like tops,

Swallowing mountains as the sea swallows rocks,

Swallowing churches and children and trees,

Swallowing islands like tiny green drops

With their warehouses, schoolhouses, dollhouses, shops,

With their dreams and intentions and sweet fantasies,

All smashed by the great white wheels spinning like tops

That gorge on the profits of energy stocks

And the fumes of our lust for convenience and ease,

Heedless of islands like tiny green drops

And the people who live on them tending their crops

Or working in offices, homes, factories,

Devoured by monsters spinning like tops

In a line of disasters no tragedy stops

Despite the raw poignance of powerless pleas …

And these are the islands, tiny green drops.

And these are the great white wheels spinning like tops.

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This week’s theme: The Environment

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Each Soul Is like a River Bearing Love

April 21, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover was on April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated today, April 21^st.

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An Easter poem about soul and the self:

Each soul is like a river bearing love

Across a desert thirsty for its treasure,

Sliding towards the sea, where it will lose

The self, which would its burden weigh and measure,

Even as it irrigates green fields,

Rewarded by the grace its gift reveals.

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

4/19: Perhaps a Meal Ought Not Bear So Much Weight

4/20: Every Holiday Makes Life More Special

4/21: Each Soul Is like a River Bearing Love

Every Holiday Makes Life More Special

April 20, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover was on April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated on April 21^st.

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A poem for both Easter and Passover for someone who is of both Jewish and Christian heritage:

Every holiday makes life more special

And waters well the roots of one’s relations.

Some are more and some are less essential,

Though all are built upon the same foundations.

Each holiday, of course, has its own story,

Religion, rites, meaning, icons, beauty,

Practices that perpetuate some glory,

All mitzvot combining joy and duty.

Still, if one’s a bridge between two cultures,

Savoring the holidays of both,

One can see, beneath their varied pleasures,

Vaults haunted by the same primeval ghosts.

Each soul depends on holidays to be

Restored to an else unclaimed legacy.

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

4/19: Perhaps a Meal Ought Not Bear So Much Weight

4/20: Every Holiday Makes Life More Special

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Perhaps a Meal Ought Not Bear So Much Weight

April 19, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover is tonight, April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated on April 21^st.

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A Passover poem about the Seder, or Passover meal:

Perhaps a meal ought not bear so much weight.

A dining room is not a synagogue.

Sometimes, however, food's a pedagogue.

Sometimes one's best text is what one ate.

One finds in food the sense in many senses,

Vested in a symbol that will last.

Even as a people needs its past,

Ritual foods dismantle time's defenses.

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

4/19: Perhaps a Meal Ought Not Bear So Much Weight

Here We Have a Story for the World

April 18, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover is April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated on April 21^st.

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A Passover poem about the universality and endurance of the story of Passover:

Here we have a story for the world,

A tale of justice served and freedom won,

Principles of goodness, universal,

Printed out on stone by God's own hand.

Yes, the past was bloody, and the old

Promise was by faithlessness undone.

And wonders ceased, memories turned brittle,

Shadows fell, and love turned into land.

Still, the story breathes the air of worlds

Old and new, a tale not writ in stone,

Vast as the hard history of a people

Ever changing, ever one, a grand

Recital running through time's glass like sand.

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Everyone at Times Is Resurrected

April 17, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover is April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated on April 21^st.

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An Easter poem about emotional resurrection:

Everyone at times is resurrected.

A person’s passion needs to be reborn.

So some turmoil ought to be expected;

Troubled feelings ought not be rejected;

Each muddled midnight leads one to the dawn,

Restoring the sweet sun one thought was gone.

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

Each Moment Is a Miracle

April 16, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover is April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated on April 21^st.

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

An Easter poem about the miracle of each moment:

Each moment is a miracle,

An is that cannot be,

Singing down an alleyway

That leads to unobstructed day,

Each soul a canticle

Rising from the sea.

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Every Garden Needs Diversity

April 15, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover is April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated on April 21^st.

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

A poem for both Easter and Passover about the need for diversity:

Every garden needs diversity,

As grace and function both require it.

So ought gardeners desire it

To make a rich and robust harmony.

Every faith needs faiths that it might be

Resistant to the skeptics who surround it,

Pleased to have believers all around it –

Although segmented, a community.

So is life impoverished by a sameness

Self-imposed to ward off painful change,

Often through a fear that faith be lost.

Very little that one does is blameless.

Each embrace is not without its cost,

Redeemed by love, to which no soul is strange.

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover