Poem of the Week

August 5: Lina

August 6: Adrianna

August 7: Everything I’ve Done, I’ve Done

Adrianna

August 6, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman who does not return the poet’s love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Adrianna rules my sovereign heart,

Delighting in my daily desperation.

Rack and ruin are the inspiration

In which she finds a purpose for her art.

Alas! I cannot give her up, for she

Need only smile to make my poor heart dance,

Need only touch my arm to make me prance

About inside, a fool no truth can free.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/adria2.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Unrequited Love.

August 5: Lina

August 6: Adrianna

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Lina

August 5, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman who loves until her love is returned.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Lina likes to love unlikely loners,

In ecstasy until they want to stay.

Need, once satisfied, makes trolls of donors,

Angry at each kiss they gave away.

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

This week’s theme: Unrequited Love.

August 5: Lina

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

I Love You Even Though I Know

August 4, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about the pain and ecstasy of unrequited love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I love you even though I know

You show no love for me.

Your eyes are icy springs that feed

My hidden ecstasy.

All night I hold you in my arms

And sleep in your embrace.

All day I turn away from life

To gaze upon your face.

Alone I find within my heart

A black and raging sea,

For only you, beloved one,

Can calm my Galilee.

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

This week’s theme: Unrequited Love.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

I Find My Happiness in Loving You

August 3, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about unequal love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I find my happiness in loving you.

Though my love is not returned, I don't mind waiting.

The woods are a cathedral where I pray

For the beauty and grace that lie within my heart.

You hold me and we kiss, and yet not yet

Is there the unity that love must crave.

You want me, but not as I want you:

This truth is like a wreckage on my sea.

There's no one else I hunger for, nor touch

That makes me feel I must take off my skin;

And so I'll wait as years pile up like leaves,

And long with the lonely patience of the moon.

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

This week’s theme: Unrequited Love.

August 2: I Love You, but I'm Not in Love with You

I Love You, but I'm Not in Love with You

August 2, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a poem letting a friend know that it’s just friendship, not love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I love you, but I'm not in love with you.

I want your friendship minus your desire.

I would not lead you falsely or betray you.

I feel the tenderness, but not the fire.

I have no reason for my lack of yearning,

No explanation for what I don't feel,

No other love to whom I might be turning,

No anguish to suggest this isn't real.

Passion is a horse that knows no master,

And I cannot with fences make it stay.

It must run free towards daylight or disaster,

Awake to glory in no other way.

So I must say what you don't want to hear,

Though I still hold you and our friendship dear.

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

This week’s theme: Unrequited Love.

August 2: I Love You, but I’m Not in Love withYou

Monday, August 1, 2016

I Love You as a Valley Loves

August 1, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a poem wondering whether love is returned.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I love you as a valley loves

The river through its fields,

Or as a note upon a page

The music that it yields.

I need you as the moon requires

The sun to make it shine,

Or as a soul in search of faith

Is rescued by some sign.

You are as much a part of me

As meadows are of Earth,

Or as a song is of a heart,

Replenishing its worth.

I love you as a hawk loves air,

Or a sailor loves the sea,

Or as a strong wave seeks the sand,

But ah! do you love me?

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

This week’s theme: Unrequited Love.