You're the Person That I Most Admire

August 28, 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 teacher.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You're the person that I most admire,

The person that I most would like to be.

Your friendship, like a torch, has lit a fire

Deep within the cave where I am me.

Because of you, I want to be a teacher,

Touching someone's life as you've touched mine.

And when I'm you I'll know just how to reach her,

Giving her the faith that she can shine.

Though you now must leave, and we must part,

A little piece of you remains behind,

Held with gratitude within my heart,

A portrait of a lady good and kind.

You will be part of everything I do;

When I need strength, I'll look inside for you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/youret.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 Shown Our Child

August 25: How Can I Sing My Gratitude

August 26: Thank You for the Gift of Life

August 27: Though Life Has Saddened Your Blue Eyes

August 28: You’re the Person That I Most Admire

Though Life Has Saddened Your Blue Eyes

August 27, 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 parent for help in getting through a divorce.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Though life has saddened your blue eyes

And pain has nestled near your heart,

You've given me your happiness

As my poor life has come apart.

I never thought that I could watch

My child suffer helplessly,

But you have two that you must watch:

My daughter Tiffani and me.

It's bad enough that this divorce

Has ripped out all my happy years.

But what has my poor daughter done

To inundate her life with tears?

I try to have the strength and faith

To hope, to love, and to forgive.

And then I watch my daughter weep

And wonder why we all must live.

I cannot think what I would do

If I could not this torment share.

I did not ask, but still you came.

I needed you, and you were there.

Sometimes I fear I should have tried

To keep you from this dreadful night.

Yet I would die without your love;

Its beauty is my only light.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thoug2.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 Shown Our Child

August 25: How Can I Sing My Gratitude

August 26: Thank You for the Gift of Life

August 27: Though Life Has Saddened Your Blue Eyes

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

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/than14.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 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

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/howcan.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 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

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/tolose.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 AllYour Life