You Have an Angel's Face, a Loving Heart

February 7, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a love poem to a loved one who lights the heart.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You have an angel's face, a loving heart,

A peaceful, sunlit smile that lasts forever.

You are the whole, of which I am a part,

Not fully me unless we are together.

I know there is a world beyond our love

In which such thoughts are merely poetry.

But thinking of you now, I can't remove

The glow that shines on you from inside me.

How happy, happy life is when some tender

Feeling like a candle lights one's eyes.

For all my life you'll be my heart's true center,

Striding like a sun across my skies.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 6: I Look at You and Think: I Cannot Live

February 7: You Have an Angel’s Face, a Loving Heart

I Look at You and Think: I Cannot Live

February 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about the need to express one’s love through poetry.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I look at you and think: I cannot live

Without you; you're the person of my dreams.

Of course I know I can, but I must give

My heart room to tell it as it seems.

Romance must have a language fit for feeling

More than fits between the earth and sky.

For love there cannot be a floor or ceiling:

My love goes down too deep and flies too high.

So when I say I cannot live without you,

Know I can't imagine so much pain;

And when I claim to always dream about you,

Well, know the moon is happy once again.

The sun reveals cold truths for all to see,

But I must light my love with poetry.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 6: I Look at You and Think: I CannotLive

Forty-Five4

February 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number and friendship poem about the need to limit one’s friendships.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-five comes home to many places,
Opening her heart again, again,

Returning, turning to a field of faces
That wait to greet her as a dear old friend.
Yet she knows which ones she needs to tend.

Friendships shouldn’t be a load of cases
In which the labor overtakes the end.
Vistas must retain their open spaces,
Enduring grace on which all eyes depend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/45d.html. For more friendship poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/friendshippoems.html .

This week’s theme: Friendship

January 30: Friends Are Prisoners of Expectation

January 31: Twenty-Seven

February 1: Thirty-Seven

February 2: Ainsley

February 3: There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat

February 4: Anisa

February 5: Forty-Five