Bless These Family Gatherings

August 9, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about how regular family gatherings are a way to conquer time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Bless these family gatherings!

In keeping up relations,

Given love, they conquer time,

Enduring generations.

Long may we gather so, that we

Outlive ourselves, for memory's

Well served by celebrations.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/bless7.html. For more psychological poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/psychologicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Time.

August 8: Forty-Eight

August 9: Bless These Family Gatherings

Forty-Eight3

August 8, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a birthday number poem for a 48 year old born on Leap Year Day.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-eight is twelve, having been born

On Leap Year Day, twelve genuine birthdays ago,

Reminding us of what we think we know:

That time and space are by the numbers drawn.

Yet time’s a moment when it's ever dawn.

Each moment is infinity writ small.

In time, of course, nothing stays the same.

Given such mysteries, grace waits for all,

Having never come yet ever came,

There, just simply there, for all to claim.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/48c.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Time.

August 8: Forty-Eight

Everything I've Done, I've Done

August 7, 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 undying unrequited love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Everything I've done, I've done

Only for your love.

Everything I am, I am

In hopes your heart will move.

I know that you love someone else,

But while you're away,

I'll love you just as though our love

Would last till you are grey.

Till you and I are grey, my love,

And all our days are done,

I'll love you just as I do now;

Your heart's my only home.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/every3.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Unrequited Love.

August 1: I Love You as a Valley Loves

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

August 3: I Find My Happiness in Loving You

August 4: I Love You Even Though I Know

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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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 1: I Love You as a Valley Loves

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

August 3: I Find My Happiness in Loving You

August 4: I Love You Even Though I Know

August 5: Lina

August 6: Adrianna

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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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 1: I Love You as a Valley Loves

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

August 3: I Find My Happiness in Loving You

August 4: I Love You Even Though I Know

August 5: Lina

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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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.

August 1: I Love You as a Valley Loves

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

August 3: I Find My Happiness in Loving You

August 4: I Love You Even Though I Know

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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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 1: I Love You as a Valley Loves

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

August 3: I Find My Happiness in Loving You