Summer

July 25, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is summer.

Today’s poem is an acrostic calendar poem describing the slow motion of summer.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Summer slides but slowly to the sea

Underneath a bright blue breathless sky.

Memory meanders into dream,

Making time spill over its thin stream,

Each moment motionless, a golden eye,

Radiant image of eternity.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer.

July 25: Summer

Forever Is a Fantasy of Time

July 24, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is faith.

Today’s poem is about a truth beyond reason.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forever is a fantasy of time:

One imagines time without an ending.

Reason cannot grasp eternity,

That outside time is outside comprehending.

Yet one can know it well, if so inclined.

The pith of every being is divine,

Which one can reach ascending or descending.

One is one with One eternally.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/forev5.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Faith.

July 18: I’ll See You When the Sun Goes Down

July 19: Lest You Leave Your Longings in the Sunshine

July 20: Every Friday Night I Bless My Children

July 21: Erase My Soul

July 22: Seventy-Three

July 23: Christine Joyce Ann

July 24: Forever Is a Fantasy of Time

Christine Joyce Ann

July 23, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is faith.

Today’s poem is a name and love poem comparing romantic love to faith.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Christine Joyce Ann has rekindled my heart!

Her nature is pure, without pretense or art.

Reason may tell you that such cannot be.

If so, then I cannot see what I see,

Singing of love through the dust of my days,

Through the bliss of my nights and the length of my ways,

In moments of passion, in moments of rest,

Needing no proof of the truth I know best.

Each moment I sing of my loved one I feel

Joy that proclaims my perceptions are real!

Oh, yes, I know some would call me a fool,

Yielding to rapture where reason should rule.

Choosing to love is like faith in that one

Embraces the fortune that faith has begun.

And thus life is lifted to be what one would.

No harsh view can dance with the grace of the good,

Nor stand once faith's powers are well understood.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Faith.

July 18: I’ll See You When the Sun Goes Down

July 19: Lest You Leave Your Longings in the Sunshine

July 20: Every Friday Night I Bless My Children

July 21: Erase My Soul

July 22: Seventy-Three

July 23: Christine Joyce Ann

Seventy-Three

July 22, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is faith.

Today’s poem is a number poem about how inner love and faith can help one bear old age.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Seventy-three refocuses on love

Even as she now must live alone.

Very little waits behind the door.

Every day is like the day before.

Nestled in her heart are sleeves of stone.

Time hangs like fog no sun will soon remove.

Yet there is much that makes her yearn for more.

To be is to be loved and blessed with grace,

However one might live or soon might die.

Revelations come like words long known,

Each an invitation to embrace

Ecstasy that needs no reason why.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/73.html. For more number poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Faith.

July 18: I’ll See You When the Sun Goes Down

July 19: Lest You Leave Your Longings in the Sunshine

July 20: Every Friday Night I Bless My Children

July 21: Erase My Soul

July 22: Seventy-Three

Erase My Soul

July 21, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is faith.

Today’s poem is a poem for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr about the beauty of Ramadan devotion and prayer.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Erase my soul and let me be

Invisible as air.

Detain me in Your emptiness

And let me be just prayer.

Let my passion disappear;

Focus well my mind.

Immerse me in infinity

Till at peace I turn to see

Ramadan behind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Faith.

July 18: I’ll See You When the Sun Goes Down

July 19: Lest You Leave Your Longings in the Sunshine

July 20: Every Friday Night I Bless My Children

July 21: Erase My Soul

Every Friday Night I Bless My Children

July 20, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is faith.

Today’s poem is about the beauty of the Jewish tradition of blessing one’s children before the Sabbath meal.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Every Friday night I bless my children.

I put my hands upon their inclined heads

And say the words my father said to me:

"May God shine His countenance on you."

I put my hands upon their inclined heads,

Chanting with a pure, intense delight.

"May God shine His countenance on you,"

I pray as though my love might make it so.

Chanting with a pure, intense delight,

Each week I play this part with equal joy.

I pray as though my love might make it so,

That God might live with them as He with me.

Each week I play this part with equal joy,

And say the words my father said to me,

That God might live with them as he with me

Every Friday night I bless my children.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Faith.

July 18: I’ll See You When the Sun Goes Down

July 19: Lest You Leave Your Longings in the Sunshine

July 20: Every Friday Night I Bless My Children

Lest You Leave Your Longings in the Sunshine

July 19, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is faith.

Today’s poem is a poem for the Lunar New Year about how the beauty of traditional worship can help guide faith.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Lest you leave your longings in the sunshine

Unprotected from night's bitter shade,

Now you may take them on the lunar wind,

Alive to phantoms vivid as your face

Reveling in front of Reason's door.

Nor could your own inventions offer more,

Even those transfigured from your race,

Which, privatized, seem downsized, somehow thinned.

Yet here is all the wealth the past has made,

Each relic well preserved in ancient brine,

A treasure-trove of comedy and grace

Resting where your faith would else be blind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Faith.

July 18: I’ll See You When the Sun Goes Down

July 19: Lest You Leave Your Longings in theSunshine