Here Among the Dishes, Pots, and Pans

May 20, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a 23^rd anniversary poem about a love that endures beneath the everyday world.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here among the dishes, pots, and pans,

Ants and spiders, fungi, mites, and mold,

Pastries, pastas, fears of growing old,

Passions, plaints, pills, purposes, and plans;

Yes, here among arthritic, blue-veined hands,

The whispered warnings of the coming cold;

Well-worn tales all-too-often told,

Easy words too clear to understand;

Nestled deep beneath this restless sea,

These waves that break above our sunken shores,

Yearning, turning, yearning yet again,

There we are, somehow still in love.

How beautiful! The land of you and me,

Innocent beyond all care or cause,

Restoring in Atlantis Eden’s reign

Deep below the world in which we move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/herea4.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 18: Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

May 19: Eight Years and Counting

May 20: Here Among the Dishes, Pots, and Pans

Eight Years and Counting

May 19, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is an eighth anniversary poem about the sweetness of loving.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Eight years and counting! How sweet the wonton ways!

In mutual love there’s freedom to enjoy

Gifts given for the sheer delight of giving.

How beautiful to love and to be loved!

The simple formula for happiness.

Yet love, yes, even love must have its days,

Enduring moments when one would destroy

All that lingers at the heart of living.

Remember in those times the time you moved

So shyly, joyfully, towards innocence.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/8years.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 18: Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

May 19: Eight Years and Counting

Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

May 18, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a 12^th anniversary poem about angels singing in the heart.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Heaven is a place within the heart.

Angels live there singing songs of praise.

Perhaps you’ve heard them, as you play your part,

Piercing through the veil of humdrum days.

Your love flows from that inner paradise,

The best of you, fed by mountain springs,

Winding down towards a world of want and vice,

Eternal in a world of passing things.

Love seeks like love to cherish in another,

Finding what will last through changing years.

The angels sing of love that lasts forever,

Here, now, in those who feel their joy as tears.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/heav6.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 18: Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 17, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a 10^th anniversary poem about attaining and retaining happiness.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness has much to recommend it,

Although it might require sacrifice.

People very often will refuse it,

Perhaps because it means one must be nice.

Yet some can find love strong enough to choose it.

There is no simple, practical advice

Embracing all that one must do to gain it,

Nor set of rules, consistent and precise,

That would help happy people to retain it.

However, all things precious have a price.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/happ71.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 16, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a 24^th anniversary poem about love and time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

The years flow through our marriage like a river

We watch from some steep bank along the way,

Each of us as much in love as ever,

Nor can our words this sense of grace convey.

Time runs on below us as we pause,

Yielding to the wonder of our love,

Fate that seems beyond effect and cause,

Our choices moved by ends we know not of.

Underneath our love is something more,

Refusing time and will, refusing age,

The joy in being that all life is for,

Here within us as we turn the page.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/theye3.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

Graduates Become the Cover Story

May 15, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities hold their graduation ceremonies this week, this week’s theme is graduation.

Today’s poem is about how graduates affect the reputation of an institution.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduates become the cover story,

Representing all those still within;

As those who came before provide the glory

Determining how well one might begin.

Underneath the letters are the learners,

A class on whom the mantle now must fall,

Taken into custody as earners,

Each a new advertisement for all,

Serving as the institute writ small.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/gradua.html. For more graduation poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation.

May 9: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 10: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

May 11: To the Graduate Who Makes Me Smile

May 12: Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 13: There Is No Future Good Enough

May 14: Give Me My Degree and Let Me Go

May 15: Graduates Become the Cover Story

Give Me My Degree and Let Me Go

May 14, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities hold their graduation ceremonies this week, this week’s theme is graduation.

Today’s poem is from the point of view of someone who didn’t really want an education.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Give me my degree and let me go!

Release me from this prison of the mind!

All I know is all I want to know,

Depending on the wisdom of the wind.

Unburden me of words and numbers, please!

Allow me to hang out and do my thing.

To learn best, I should best be at my ease,

In touch with what in life makes my heart sing.

Open up the world so I can see

No further than I need to be just me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/givem2.html. For more graduation poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation.

May 9: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 10: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

May 11: To the Graduate Who Makes Me Smile

May 12: Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 13: There Is No Future Good Enough

May 14: Give Me My Degree and Let Me Go