Thank You for the Gift of Life

August 26, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a thank-you poem to God.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thank you for the gift of life,

For letting me be me,

For all that I can know by words

And all that I can see,

For all the music I can hear

And all the songs I sing,

For all the joy that comes to me

And all the joy I bring,

For all the food that I can taste

And all the sweet scents smell,

For all the loved ones I can touch,

Who love and wish me well,

For all the beauty of the world,

Ever fresh and new,

I don't know whom else I can thank,

And so I'm thanking you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You.

August 22: To Lose Someone Who’s Loved You All Your Life

August 23: Thank You for Your Recent Contribution

August 24: Thank You for the Love You’ve Shown Our Child

August 25: How Can I Sing My Gratitude

August 26: Thank You for the Gift of Life

How Can I Sing My Gratitude

August 25, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a thank-you name poem for friendship.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How can I sing my gratitude,

Explain my silent sea,

Approximate in words the gift

That you have been to me?

How can I show my love to you,

Elucidate that golden drift,

Rolling wild and free?

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You.

August 22: To Lose Someone Who’s Loved You All Your Life

August 23: Thank You for Your Recent Contribution

August 24: Thank You for the Love You’ve Shown Our Child

August 25: How Can I Sing My Gratitude

Thank You for the Love You've Shown Our Child

August 24, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a thank-you poem to a former lover for loving their child.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thank you for the love you've shown our child,

However little we two might have shared.

A baby has the right to be adored,

No matter whether we are well prepared,

Knowing early whether we have smiled.

You're neither walking off nor running scared,

Opening your heart to be beguiled,

Understanding the immense reward.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/than38.html. For more thank-you poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/thankyoupoems.html .

This week’s theme: Saying Thank You.

August 22: To Lose Someone Who’s Loved You All Your Life

August 23: Thank You for Your Recent Contribution

August 24: Thank You for the Love You’ve ShownOur Child

Thank You for Your Recent Contribution

August 23, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a thank-you poem for a contribution in a deceased person’s name.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thank you for your recent contribution.

Hearts find words that best their love convey.

All tears, like rain, must flow into the sea,

Nor do they ever lose their destined way.

Know that your kind gift brings consolation.

Yet it also sponsors a solution,

Offering the haunted hope that we

Upon some shore shall see a brighter day.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/than42.html. For more thank-you poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/thankyoupoems.html .

This week’s theme: Saying Thank You.

August 22: To Lose Someone Who’s Loved You All Your Life

August 23: Thank You for Your Recent Contribution

To Lose Someone Who's Loved You All Your Life

August 22, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a thank-you poem for help after a loved one’s death.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

To lose someone who's loved you all your life,

Having held you long against the darkness,

And felt the press of friends upon your sadness,

Need cutting through your torment like a knife . . .

Kindness is a sign of inner plenty:

Yours does much to mitigate my pain.

Of grief comes neither clarity nor gain

Unless friends fill its passion with their beauty.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You.

August 22: To Lose Someone Who’s Loved You AllYour Life

I Must Accept but Can't What Cannot Be

August 21, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about pain being a way of holding on to a former love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

I see you and my heart dissolves in pain.

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.

What happened to our love's a mystery.

I rummage through our empty past in vain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be:

That someone else now shares your off-hand "we,"

Now feels your tender tongue all feeling drain . . .

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.

I cannot lay aside my agony:

Again, again I play the same refrain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

And yet I know this tortured ecstasy

Is just my way of holding you again.

You are not dead, but you are dead to me,

And still I cannot bear to set you free,

That of our love some remnant might remain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

You are not dead, but you are dead to 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/imusta.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

August 15: Hold Me to Your Willing Heart

August 16: How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes

August 17: I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say I Love You

August 18: I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold

August 19: I Feel as Though My Heart Lay Bleeding

August 20: I Guess You Just Don’t Know How Much It Hurts

August 21: I Must Accept but Can’t What CannotBe

I Guess You Just Don't Know How Much It Hurts

August 20, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is to a former lover about the selfishness of pretending to love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I guess you just don't know how much it hurts.

I cannot think you know and just don't care.

Destiny provides one's just deserts

By shaping one’s life just as would be fair.

Just as a child learns to its delight

That lying sets one fabulously free,

So you say "love" to get the rapture right,

Getting so the most you can from me.

And then, of course, you tire of your pleasure,

As those who seek but pleasure often do,

And sacrifice by far the greater treasure

Upon the altar where you worship you.

Justice would demand you be the fool,

But you are far more ignorant than cruel.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

August 15: Hold Me to Your Willing Heart

August 16: How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes

August 17: I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say I Love You

August 18: I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold

August 19: I Feel as Though My Heart Lay Bleeding

August 20: I Guess You Just Don’t Know How Much It Hurts