How Can Normal, Rational People

October 28, 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 irrational fears are still alive and well in rational people.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How can normal, rational people

All lust after ghosts one night,

Like the moon on some church steeple

Luring demons to its light?

Old fears lie buried in our pleasure,

Words sealed in a midnight grave,

Each a truth that we must treasure,

Eerie horrors our hearts crave.

Nor should we all our passions pave.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

October 26: Halloween’s a Sudden BOO

October 27: Hobgoblins Say “Hop”

October 28: How Can Normal, Rational People

Hobgoblins Say "Hop!"

October 27, 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 children’s Halloween poem about hobgoblins.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hobgoblins say "Hop!"

So rabbits hop.

Hobgoblins say "Stop!"

So rabbits stop.

Whatever hobgoblins say,

They do.

Wouldn't 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/hobgo2.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

October 26: Halloween’s a Sudden BOO

October 27: Hobgoblins Say “Hop”

Halloween's a Sudden BOO

October 26, 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 poem about children on Halloween.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Halloween's a sudden BOO!!

And just as quick a scream:

Laughing in the scary dark,

Loving friendly fright.

On Halloween, ghosts are true;

Werewolves leap from dreams.

Every spirit in the park,

Each zombie, T-Rex, witch, or shark,

Needs to squeal all night!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/hallo2.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

October 26: Halloween’s a Sudden BOO

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