Joy Is in the Simple Things

January 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is marriage.

Today’s poem is a name poem with advice on how to find joy in marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Joy is in the simple things: touching,

Embracing, chattering on for hours about nothing,

Sure of your place within another's heart.

Simple things: like coming home knowing

Exactly where the treasure lies; like being

At ease with what you do and who you are;

Needing what you already have; accepting,

Desiring what you have been given; feeling

The gratitude of someone who is loved;

Investing goodness instead of money; giving

For the pleasure of giving pleasure; seeing

Fortune come to take you in its arms.

All this joy is yours for the price of loving,

Not only well but long, days of willing,

Years and years of wise and patient love.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

January 10: Joy Is in the Simple Things

Jody and Blue

January 9, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is marriage.

Today’s poem is about how love can overcome the limitations and frustrations of marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Jody and Blue have a great deal to do

On their way to be blissfully wed,

Determined to be repossessed by the sea

Yet confining themselves to one bed.

Bright days and nights can be had without lights;

Love works well, if by will, in the dark.

Undoing the pain of frustration and strain,

Each arrow finds always its mark.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

The Point of Life Is that There Is No Point

January 8, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.

In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.

Today’s poem is a number poem about the need to create rather than discover one’s epiphanies.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

The point of life is that there is no point.

We find our meaning in that lack of meaning.

Each is therefore free to choose a mission,

Needing something more than mere ambition,

The pursuit of which can often seem redeeming.

Yet some would their uncertainties anoint.

Freedom doesn't disappear with choice.

In being one, one cannot help be free.

Vast the view, and miniscule the voice,

Even as the voice makes meaning be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thepo3.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Epiphanies

January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul

January 3: The Meaning of Eternity

January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending

January 5: Aaron

January 6: Epiphanies Come and Go

January 7: Eager for a Miracle

January 8: The Point of Life Is that There Is NoPoint

Eager for a Miracle

January 7, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.

In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.

Today’s poem is about the validity of epiphanies.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Eager for a miracle, one sees

Plainly and precisely as one wills,

Immersed in purposes, plans, goals, needs, desires,

Peering through the window of a dream.

How might one see right through the way things seem,

Adjusting for the light of inner fires?

Numbers measure what the measure kills.

Yet some truths are best planted on one's knees.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Epiphanies

January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul

January 3: The Meaning of Eternity

January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending

January 5: Aaron

January 6: Epiphanies Come and Go

January 7: Eager for a Miracle

Epiphanies Come and Go

January 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.

In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.

Today’s poem is about a continuous beauty that lies beyond epiphanies.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Epiphanies come and go; what remains

Plays upon the harp strings of the heart,

In which an inborn harmony sustains

Passion, pleasure, patience, purpose, art.

How might beatitude come every day,

A bit of the bright ecstasy of Heaven?

None need do more than tarry by the way,

Yielding to the grace that all are given.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Epiphanies

January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul

January 3: The Meaning of Eternity

January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending

January 5: Aaron

January 6: Epiphanies Come and Go

Aaron

January 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.

In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.

Today’s poem is a name poem about the circular nature of some epiphanies, which can only occur within the context of an already established faith.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Aaron is an acolyte of Being,

A lover of the One within the many,

Revealed alone through rituals of seeing

On which one must agree before agreeing,

Needing faith before one can have any.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Epiphanies

January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul

January 3: The Meaning of Eternity

January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending

January 5: Aaron

Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending

January 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.

In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.

Today’s poem is a number poem about the role of imagination in epiphanies.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forever is not merely time unending.

It simply is, outside of space and time.

For us, who cannot be except in motion,

The eternal is like color to the blind,

Yearning without hope of comprehension.

 

There is, however, beauty in the notion.

What one imagines, one can be, depending

On powers resident in every mind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/forev6.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Epiphanies

January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul

January 3: The Meaning of Eternity

January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending