Fifty-Six3

April 8, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem for an actress who knows what it costs to be dedicated to beauty.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fifty-six has walked the road less traveled,

Intent more on the view than on the end.

For her success is measured in the moment –

To render beauty few can comprehend,

Yet absent which the heart becomes unraveled.

She knows too well what spirit she must spend

In making painted paths seem steep or graveled,

Xeroxes like scrims, alive, transparent.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/56c.html. For more poems about professions, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Professions

April 3: Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most

April 4: Rich Vein of Funky Wisdom, Soulful Art

April 5: Tiffany

April 6: Farmers Ought Not Cut Against the Grain

April 7: Forty-One

April 8: Fifty-Six

Forty-One5

April 7, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem for a hand surgeon who enjoys the gift of her unusual ability.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-one does well what few can do –

Operate on mangled wrists and hands,

Restoring them to functionality.

That such a gift is rare she understands,

Yet home and office sometimes block her view.

Often, though, amid the day’s demands,

Not really thinking what she knows is true,

Engrossed in work, she’s pleased as she can 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/41e.html. For more poems about professions, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Professions

April 3: Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most

April 4: Rich Vein of Funky Wisdom, Soulful Art

April 5: Tiffany

April 6: Farmers Ought Not Cut Against the Grain

April 7: Forty-One

Farmers Ought Not Cut Against the Grain

April 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem with advice for farmers.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Farmers ought not cut against the grain

Or take from nature more than it would give.

Reason often goes in a straight line

That would, if curved, require extra time,

Yet would not cause the ecosphere such pain.

To farm is to be patient and to live

With the earth, pursuing mutual gain,

Obeying the commands of sun and rain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Professions

April 3: Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most

April 4: Rich Vein of Funky Wisdom, Soulful Art

April 5: Tiffany

April 6: Farmers Ought Not Cut Against the Grain

Tiffany2

April 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman who wants to be a nurse.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Tiffany intends to be a nurse,

Imagining a lifetime of good deeds.

Finding her best pleasure in relation,

For her, service is the best vocation,

As grace seeks those who tend to others' needs,

Not looking to their losses reimburse,

Yet filling them with love that kindness feeds.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/tiffa2.html. For more poems about professions, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Professions

April 3: Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most

April 4: Rich Vein of Funky Wisdom, Soulful Art

April 5: Tiffany

Rich Vein of Funky Wisdom, Soulful Art

April 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem for a jazz historian.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Rich vein of funky wisdom, soulful art;

Opulent harmonies in sync with pain;

Bebop rushing madly to the brain;

Elegant tears enveloping the heart:

Rich veins require miners to reveal

The gold that else would be encased in rock;

Gold beneath the gilded grace of pop;

Ore turned into lore, the past made real;

Lingo lit with love and well displayed;

Dug up and cast in meaning that won’t fade.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Professions

April 3: Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most

April 4: Rich Vein of Funky Wisdom, Soulful Art

Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most

April 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem to a therapist about balancing the desire to serve others with the need to serve oneself.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Those who can help those who need it most,

Having both the expertise and heart,

Intending both to profit and to give,

Retaining self enough amply to live,

Tough enough to play a tender part,

Yet understand the perils of the post.

 

One is in this life neither guest nor host,

Nor is one's empathy imperative.

Each must give with love and care and art.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/those2.html. For more poems about professions, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Professions

April 3: Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most

Theresa2

April 2, 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 is a perpetual dawn.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Theresa is the goddess of the morning,

Happy in the sunlight of her song.

Enthusiasm fills whatever room

Resounds to the bright trumpets of her bloom,

Easy-hearted, ample, clear, and strong.

So may we enjoy her daylong dawning

As even night cannot stay night for long.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/theres2.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

March 30: Caroline

March 31: Cheryl

April 1: Kumudu

April 2: Theresa