Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

June 15, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem about the pain and beauty of the relation between father and child.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fathers vest themselves in a relation,

And, as we know, relationships can change.

The hot and cold are often in rotation.

Heartache’s not a place one should find strange.

Each love can be a corridor for pain,

Reopening a door that had been closed.

‘Mid need and fear one loves again, again,

Sacrificing more than one supposed.

Do, then, love not for the joy but for

A gift of self that makes one’s being more,

Yielding grace that none but love sustains.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathe9.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 13: Fortune’s a Chameleon, Changing Shade

June 14: Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood

June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood

June 14, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for a divorced father who does not have custody of his child.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forget the fantasies of fatherhood

And take a look at what your life has wrought.

The choices you have made, both good and bad,

Have added up to … Well, you can add.

Enduring love will bring what you have sought,

Regardless of the pain the years have brought,

Sustaining what can only end in good.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/forge4.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 13: Fortune’s a Chameleon, Changing Shade

June 14: Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood

Fortune's a Chameleon, Changing Shade

June 13, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem advising a father to appreciate his good fortune.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fortune’s a chameleon, changing shade

As one embraces, or does not, one’s fate.

Ties that bind one to an ordered life –

Having children with a loving wife –

Endure, though passions pale and friendships fade.

Remember, then, to hug the life you made,

Singing, singing as you celebrate.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fortu6.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 13: Fortune’s a Chameleon, Changing Shade

Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 12, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for an expectant father who sees his father as the giant he will soon be.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fathers are the giants of our lives,

Atlases who once held up our worlds.

They do not shrink as we increase in size,

However handsomely our lives unfurl.

Even when we know them for themselves,

Reducing them to their humanity,

‘Mid myth and memory we are still elves,

Still small beside the giants we still see.

Do, then, both enjoy your coming state

And know you will reprise your father’s fate,

Yearning for the giant you will be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathe8.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

There Is a Love So Certain

June 11, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem for a couple getting married after a long involuntary separation.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is a love so certain

It can underwrite all fears;

A passion so enduring

It abides beneath the years;

A yearning so consuming

It's consumed by its own will

To yearn if need forever

For the one its need might still.

How beautiful the rapture

That sustains those long apart!

The joyful inner union

Of the undivided heart.

How sweet yet sad the music

That conveys such loyalty!

The devastated grace

Of the hope of love to be.

And now the mystic moment

Has arrived, and the reward

For all that time of waiting

Shall be gathered in a word.

And life with utter longing

Shall let down its golden hair

That these long faithful lovers

Find at last their pleasure there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

June 7: This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

June 8: You Are the Mirror of My Past

June 9: They Said We’d Never Make It

June 10: To Be a Child at a Parent’s Wedding

June 11: There Is a Love So Certain

To Be a Child at a Parent's Wedding

June 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem from the child of a previous marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

To be a child at a parent's wedding

Is strange, for there's a hint of darkness there.

The past stands just offshore, although we're heading

Inland into cool, fresh mountain air.

The love you two have found is my love also;

Your happiness this day is also mine.

Where your heart leads you, mine will also follow

As more than two lives in this act combine.

So like a sun that burns off morning mist,

Or like a rainbow gracing a blue sky,

Or like the weeping of the newly blessed,

Or like a deep-felt truth that cannot lie,

This moment is far more than we can be,

Joining you to you, and then to me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

June 7: This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

June 8: You Are the Mirror of My Past

June 9: They Said We’d Never Make It

June 10: To Be a Child at a Parent’s Wedding

They Said We'd Never Make It

June 9, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since June is a popular month for weddings, that is the theme for this week.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem for the renewal of vows.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

They said we'd never make it,

But now we've come this far.

Today we celebrate our love

And honor who we are.

We had a hard beginning,

Adults before our time.

But growing up together made

Our deepest roots entwine.

You are my life, my love, my hope,

My friend, my world, my song,

The mirror of my unseen heart,

The place where I belong.

And as our one life passes,

Through love we live for two:

A cornucopia of joy

That we this day renew.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Weddings

June 5: Childhood Sweethearts Share an Innocence

June 6: Getting Married Means You’ll Have

June 7: This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both

June 8: You Are the Mirror of My Past

June 9: They Said We’d Never Make It