Why Is It that a Child Makes Life Worthwhile

October 2, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about why children make life worthwhile.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Why is it that a child makes life worthwhile?

Why is hope with each new birth new born?

What deep remembrance, shadowed in a smile,

Brings back the dream whose measured loss we mourn?

Why do we think that life that is to be

Has greater aptitude for being more,

As if we rose not from the self-same sea

To crash in turn against the self-same shore?

Why do we wrap the best of us in song,

The Eden that we left but never lost,

And try to pass that purer self along,

Not counting risk or reckoning the cost?

I do not know, but know that from my womb

Has come a life whose life makes my life bloom.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 28: I Have Some Information for Your Files

September 29: Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World

September 30: Glad Tidings of Great Joy Are Come to You

October 1: A Child Is the Greatest Gift

October 2: Why Is It that a Child Makes LifeWorthwhile

A Child Is the Greatest Gift

October 1, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem thanks friends for gifts on the birth of a child.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

A child is the greatest gift

That our lives can bestow.

It brings the most exquisite joy

That we will ever know.

Some days deliver happiness,

Far more than we can touch.

We need the help of all our friends

To comprehend how much.

And so we thank you for the gifts,

Both those you brought and are,

That celebrate this rich, full life

And its rising star!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 28: I Have Some Information for Your Files

September 29: Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World

September 30: Glad Tidings of Great Joy Are Come to You

October 1: A Child Is the Greatest Gift

Glad Tidings of Great Joy Are Come to You

September 30, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem announces a pregnancy or birth to grandparents.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Glad tidings of great joy are come to you,

Eternal in their deep and lasting pleasure.

Nor can we not give adoration due,

Embracing so embraceable a treasure.

Rejoice, then, in the child of your child,

A gift come from a gift come from your love.

The sun once more upon our lives has smiled,

Inviting us to move as we are moved.

Our faith in faith is by our faith redeemed,

Nor will the time be different than we dreamed,

So passing sweet will this new angel prove.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 28: I Have Some Information for Your Files

September 29: Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World

September 30: Glad Tidings of Great Joy Are Cometo You

Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World

September 29, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem welcomes a child into the world.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Welcome to this wide-eyed world,

This loving, gentle wonderland,

Where fluffy lambs lie near at hand,

Their ears in tiny fingers curled;

Where one comes well equipped with toes

And fingers one can use to clutch

And rub and scratch and feel and touch

One’s soft cheek, one’s crusty nose.

What magic in the moment!

What delight in joy!

Life dances through the morning

Of a little boy.

What ebb and flow of feeling

Beneath an inner moon!

A symphony of senses,

A rich, rhapsodic tune!

Welcome to this wide-eyed world,

Where everything is dark and light,

Where faces smile day and night

And beam as one’s own smile unfurls;

Where love begins its ancient song

As one is kissed, caressed, and held,

Each pain allayed, each hunger quelled,

The love bonds woven thick and strong,

The love bonds thick and strong.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/welco4.html. For more poems about pregnancy and childbirth, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/birthpregnancypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 28: I Have Some Information for Your Files

September 29: Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World

I Have Some Information for Your Files

September 28, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem announces a pregnancy through its acrostic.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I have some information for your files,

A tidbit that might underline your day,

Most suited to the gentlest of smiles:

Please mark before you file it away.

Regarding information: some may render

Every passion previous absurd,

Giving your experience a splendor

New risen with the wonder of a word.

All you've ever known or has occurred

Now will be transfigured instantly:

To process, read the left side vertically.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 28: I Have Some Information for YourFiles

Hallelujah! I'm Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 27, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem thanks God for a pregnancy.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hallelujah! I'm pregnant! Praise the Lord!

For the Lord has quickened my womb! With my husband,

Of course, and Dr. Heller, who quickened the sperm.

Which makes it no less a miracle.

For the Lord has quickened my womb! With my husband

I thank Him and science both, and bless them.

Which makes it no less a miracle

Of the Lord, Who works through the works of our hands.

I thank Him and science both, and bless them.

With science I have but a passing acquaintance.

Of the Lord Who works through the works of our hands,

Of the Lord I sing all the words in my heart!

With science I have but a passing acquaintance,

Of course, and Dr. Heller, who quickened the sperm.

Of the Lord I sing all the words in my heart:

Hallelujah! I'm pregnant! Praise the Lord!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

A Universe, a Little Boy

September 26, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about waiting for a baby boy to be born.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

A universe, a little boy,

A bear pretending it’s a toy,

A rattle ready to bring joy,

All soon, yes, soon will meet.

Some tiny clothes, an empty room,

A wind-up lamb, a tinkling tune,

A soul that will be ready soon,

Yes, yes, they all will meet.

And when they meet, what wonder!

What worlds within that grasp!

What will those eyes discover

When they can see at last?

A waiting crib, a family

With dreams enough of what will be,

A gift whose grace none can foresee,

Soon, soon they all will meet,

Yes, soon they all will meet.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy