Elizabeth

July 28, 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 a philosophical name poem about a gardener reaching for the ideal.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Elizabeth spends summer afternoons

Leaning over roses and potatoes,

In radiant concentration as she prunes.

Zeno's thoughts are less with her than Plato's

As she snips and clips in steeply slanted light,

Blessed alike by tulips and tomatoes.

Each creature yearns to be, but never quite

Touches what it is, as dissonant tunes

Hover at the silent edge of night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer.

July 25: Summer

July 26: It’s Been So Good to Have You as a Friend

July 27: One Late Summer Afternoon

July 28: Elizabeth

One Late Summer Afternoon

July 27, 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 about the recognition of death waiting behind a late summer afternoon sky.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

One late summer afternoon

As the stars waited patiently

Behind a deep cobalt sky,

I took my usual suburban walk,

Up this hill, down that hill,

Past tiny lawns and tidy gardens,

Till I stopped, and imagined the stars

Behind the sky, waiting,

Then took a deep breath and went on.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer.

July 25: Summer

July 26: It’s Been So Good to Have You as a Friend

July 27: One Late Summer Afternoon

It's Been So Good to Have You as a Friend

July 26, 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 a friendship poem comparing friendship to the light of a summer sun.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

It's been so good to have you as a friend:

As sweet and rich as honey-colored sun

Slanting steep across a summer lawn,

Gilding life with all that love can lend.

And now that you yourself have griefs to tend,

I want to be the strong and caring one

To count to you the lovely things you've done

Until these troubles pass and sorrows end.

You are so beautiful in form and soul

That you bring happiness to all you're near:

Just as a sea rose, flowering in mist,

Makes a paradise of some bleak shoal,

Turning truth to something far more clear,

No pain unsoothed or rain-swept cheek unkissed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer.

July 25: Summer

July 26: It’s Been So Good to Have You as aFriend

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