Antonisha

March 29, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman whose beauty comes from within.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Antonisha is bursting with beauty,

Now in her flowering spring.

Though one may be winsome, attractive, or pretty,

One’s beauty must come from within.

None can gaze long at the sun of her smile.

Instead, one must soon look away.

Still, one can’t help but look back for a while,

Held by a heart that would angels beguile

And turn hapless night into day.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Beautiful Women

March 27: Alberta

March 28: Raviporn

March 29: Antonisha

Raviporn

March 28, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman who is still too shy to display her beauty.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Raviporn's a bit of paradise,

Although there isn't yet a man who knows it.

Vivacious in her heart, she rarely shows it,

In her shyness always thinking twice.

Perhaps when time unveils a man she wants,

Opening her flower to the spring,

Revealing the quick smile that makes life sing,

None will resist the charm that grips and haunts.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Beautiful Women

March 27: Alberta

March 28: Raviporn

Alberta

March 27, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman who takes great pleasure in her beauty.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Alberta lets her golden hair hang low,

Loving well the luster of its sheen.

Bent on being beautiful, she stays

Elusive; yet, aware of passing days,

Resolves to find a mate once she has been

To all her friends and rivals reigning queen,

A paradise where but a king might go.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Beautiful Women

March 27: Alberta

Spring3

March 26, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem is about how quickly spring is gone.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Spring surprises us, no matter how

Prepared we are to revel in its bloom,

Returning far too late yet far too soon,

Instantly from bud to blossoming bough.

Nor does it wait for us to take it in,

Gone to green before it well has been.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/sprin3.html. For more calendar poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/calendarpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring

March 20: Spring

March 21: Your Hazel Green Eyes

March 22: March

March 23: Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two

March 24: Felicia2

March 25: Spring2

March 26: Spring3

Spring2

March 25, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem is about the sudden beauty of spring.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Spring springs out singing from the womb,

Passionate and prodigal,

Returning in a blaze of bliss,

Improvident, impetuous,

Neighbor's backyard canticle,

Grace bursting grandly into 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/sprin2.html. For more calendar poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/calendarpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring

March 20: Spring

March 21: Your Hazel Green Eyes

March 22: March

March 23: Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two

March 24: Felicia2

March 25: Spring2

Felicia2

March 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem is a name poem for an abused child who has to live through winter in the spring of her life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Felicia has a winter in her spring.

Each day the frost within her meets the sun.

Loving isn't easy when a child

Is tended by a rabid dog gone wild.

Closeness means the torture has begun.

Icy though her heart, it yet will sing

As slowly tears just melted through her run.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/felic2.html. For more poems about child abuse, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/childabusepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Spring

March 20: Spring

March 21: Your Hazel Green Eyes

March 22: March

March 23: Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two

March 24: Felicia2

Death for One Ought Not Mean Death for Two

March 23, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Spring in honor of the March equinox, or the coming of spring, which falls on March 20.

Today’s poem compares the emergence from grief to the coming of spring.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Death for one ought not mean death for two.

We cannot die of grief unless we will.

Love requires us to love life still,

Lest love be less than life and death are due.

We cannot choose but choose for others, too,

For what we choose does what we are distill,

And open fields with inner sweetness fill,

That those who pass might hope or faith renew.

So may your love for loved ones that remain

Bring you through this season of despair

To some unquiet, sad, but gentle spring.

Emerging from your chrysalis of pain,

May you find a new world blossomed there

With new songs bittersweet that pleasure bring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Spring

March 20: Spring

March 21: Your Hazel Green Eyes

March 22: March

March 23: Death for One Ought Not Mean Death forTwo