Poem of the Week

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Forty-Three3

May 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about choosing to see the good in one’s life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-three has been well served by fortune.

Often, though, the trick is just to know it.

Reasons may abound to feel abused.

To feel blessed is like listening to music,

Yearning to hear the song that one is hearing.

There is in all lives much that is endearing.

How could one not turn to it and choose it?

Remember that sweet choice when life's confused,

Embracing what one has and quick to show it,

Each love one touches with a generous passion.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/43c.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 3: Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

May 4: Fortune Leaves No Reason for Regret

May 5: Forty-Seven3

May 6: Forty-Three3

Friday, May 5, 2017

Forty-Seven3

May 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about accepting even non-acceptance.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-seven contemplates her fate,
Old enough to know just what is what,
Revisiting the windings of the way
That led her to this not-unwelcome state,
Yet yearning now and then for what is not.

So does one listen for the lilt of longing
Even when essentially at peace,
Vested in what one knows will decay,
Enduring, dreaming, suffering, desiring.
Nor would one for one’s soul such music cease.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/47c.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 3: Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

May 4: Fortune Leaves No Reason for Regret

May 5: Forty-Seven3

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Fortune Leaves No Reason for Regret

May 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about fantasy and acceptance.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fortune leaves no reason for regret.

In what one has there is unbearable beauty.

For every moment sings with unfelt joy,

Though some would drown their sorrows in self-pity,

Yearning for whatever they can’t get.

Fantasies, of course, continue, yet

One finds good sustenance in their employ,

Uniting hope with fact and dreams with duty,

Rich sense of self that one ought not forget.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fortu5.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 3: Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

May 4: Fortune Leaves No Reason for Regret

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

May 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about seeing grace even in a painful past.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Future selves are built on past mistakes.

One is the sum of what one was, and yet

Retains a bit of undetermined space,

The power to be different, as the net,

Years on, becomes a filigree of lace.

So might one see that everything has grace,

Including all the pain one would forget,

X-ing out nothing, with nothing to regret.

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

This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 3: Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

Monday, May 1, 2017

Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 2, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about how one might shape the music of one’s fortune.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fortune is like music minus one:

One adds one’s voice to what one has been given.

Remember that, in either rain or sun,

The part one plays should be by beauty driven,

Yearning that will one’s whole session run.

So might one’s music mingle pain and joy,

Engaged in harmony that heals the heart,

Vested in what will one’s loved ones buoy,

Embracing truth with all one’s well-honed art.

Nor need one’s fate one’s happiness destroy.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fortu4.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

Sunday, April 30, 2017

For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 1, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about how life answers one’s embrace.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For those who love, things tend to matter more.

In paradise, one has much to lose.

Feelings race like birds upon the shore,

Tallying the risks one can’t refuse,

Yearning for what one is free to choose.

Embracing what one is, one has, one loves

Is what evokes an answering embrace.

Glory comes and goes; acceptance proves

Hardier than passion, time, or place,

The silent turn that yields the gift of grace.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/forth2.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

Lauren

April 30, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is trees in honor of Arbor Day, which was celebrated on April 28.

Today’s poem is a name poem, comparing a woman to a grove of ancient trees.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Lauren is a grove of ancient trees.

Around her is the hush before the word--

Unfinished, like a fluttering of wings.

Resisting words, she shelters wide-eyed things,

Easy in the twilight, as a bird

Nestles in against a cold, dark breeze.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/lauren.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Trees