Halloween Wraps Fear in Innocence

October 25, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Halloween, which falls on October 31.

Today’s poem is a Halloween poem about the holiday’s therapeutic effects.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Halloween wraps fear in innocence,

As though it were a slightly sour sweet.

Let terror, then, be turned into a treat,

Lest it overwhelm our common sense.

Our nightmares are the founts of fancy whence

We draw upon the monsters we would meet,

Eluding horrors we cannot defeat,

Enjoying the parade of our pretense

Now ranged across the night in our defense.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/hallo3.html . For more Halloween poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/halloweenpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Halloween.

October 24: Have No Fear of Goblins, Ghosts, and Witches

October 25: Halloween Wraps Fear in Innocence

Have No Fear of Goblins, Ghosts, and Witches

October 24, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Halloween, which falls on October 31.

Today’s poem is a Halloween poem about how one cannot help but feel fear.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Have no fear of goblins, ghosts, and witches,

And skeletons dancing to macabre tunes,

Lifeless zombies wearing bloodstained britches,

Lighted pumpkin heads in darkened rooms!

Oh, have no fear of werewolves, vampires, ghouls!

Wean yourselves from superstitious fears!

Even though at times we all are fools,

Each whistling a happy tune that cheers

No one, as we still our screams and tears.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/haven2.html . For more Halloween poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/halloweenpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Halloween.

October 24: Have No Fear of Goblins, Ghosts, andWitches

Savor the Sweet Taste of Simply Being

October 23, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about the joy of simply being alone with oneself.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Savor the sweet taste of simply being,

Indulging in the luxury of rest,

X-ing out the voices that complain

That doing something useful might be best.

Yet what could be more useful and more freeing?

Feel the quiet ecstasy of seeing.

Open up a room within your breast,

Untenanted but for a silent guest,

Returned because you are alone again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Joy.

October 17: Sing, My Loved One! Sing of All the Glory

October 18: Grace

October 19: There Is No Substitute for Lifelong Longing

October 20: The Universe Is like a Symphony

October 21: Hooray! Hooray! The Time Has Come

October 22: Some Sing Silently, Which Is All Right

October 23: Savor the Sweet Taste of SimplyBeing

Some Sing Silently, Which Is All Right

October 22, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about the need to sing throughout one’s life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Some sing silently, which is all right.

The point is just to sing, aloud or no.

Music dances on the edge of night,

Turning into grace one's weal or woe.

So sing, no matter in a minor key,

And make of grief a monument to love.

For loss would not be loss unwillingly,

Although the pain excruciating prove.

Take from life the only thing that lasts –

Its music, which remains within the heart.

Gather up your sweet and bitter pasts

And sing with passion, if with little art.

So may your days and nights be filled with song,

And music keep your love for living 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/somesi.html . For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Joy.

October 17: Sing, My Loved One! Sing of All the Glory

October 18: Grace

October 19: There Is No Substitute for Lifelong Longing

October 20: The Universe Is like a Symphony

October 21: Hooray! Hooray! The Time Has Come

October 22: Some Sing Silently, Which Is AllRight

Hooray! Hooray! The Time Has Come

October 21, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about life as a joyful dance.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hooray! Hooray! The time has come

To dance, to dance till day is done!

You've learned to dance the proper way.

Now dance! Now dance throughout the day!

The lovers twirl around the floor,

Round and round, then round some more.

With graceful steps they do their duty,

Making life a thing of beauty.

Round and round and round they go

Until at last they start to slow;

Then slowly, slowly round and round

Till one, then both, are in the ground.

The dance is done, the dance is over,

The two have turned to grass and clover.

Dancing did as dancing does.

But what a lovely dance it was!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Joy.

October 17: Sing, My Loved One! Sing of All the Glory

October 18: Grace

October 19: There Is No Substitute for Lifelong Longing

October 20: The Universe Is like a Symphony

October 21: Hooray! Hooray! The Time Has Come

The Universe Is like a Symphony

October 20, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about how joy comes from within.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

The universe is like a symphony

Which you can make as lovely as you please.

Your days are just as sunny as your smiles;

Your nights as full of love as is your heart.

Every please and thank you, warm hello,

Act of kindness, generosity,

Word of sympathy, regret, compassion,

Becomes for everyone a source of light.

We are like birds in never-ending concert,

Joining happily in what we hear,

Each in turn the melody, and then

The counterpoint that lends its grace to others.

Joy is our reply to pain and death –

Exuberant, infectious, loving joy

That fills the void with laughter and with music,

That makes a mirror of the faceless deep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/theun2.html . For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Joy.

October 17: Sing, My Loved One! Sing of All the Glory

October 18: Grace

October 19: There Is No Substitute for Lifelong Longing

October 20: The Universe Is like a Symphony

There Is No Substitute for Lifelong Longing

October 19, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about the relationship between joy and longing.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is no substitute for lifelong longing.

One may be happy, but there's always more.

Now might be perfection, but one’s yearning

Is like a wave that seeks the distant shore;

And when it gets there, sweeps across the sand

In ecstasy, relieved of want, at peace;

Then sweeps back again, away from land,

Within a rapture that will never cease.

What perfect love, that cannot reach perfection,

But like the universe, must ever dance,

Singing with the sheer joy of affection,

Savoring the mysteries of chance.

There is a satisfaction in desire

Unsatisfied, that sets the soul on fire.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ther37.html . For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Joy.

October 17: Sing, My Loved One! Sing of All the Glory

October 18: Grace

October 19: There Is No Substitute for LifelongLonging