Poem of the Week

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 17: Hold On to What You Know – That You’re in Love

June 18: For You the Symphony Will Never End

Friday, June 16, 2017

Hold On to What You Have -- That You're in Love

June 17, 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 father dealing with the difficulties of fatherhood.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hold on to what you know – that you’re in love,

And will be for life, a sentence that’s a joy,

Pleased to have one thing you’re certain of,

Pleased to have one thing time can’t destroy.

Yes, of course, all love must ebb and flow.

Feeling is liquid, moved by winds and tides,

Above, all waves and ripples, while below

The simple, silent, unchanged truth abides.

Have faith in that sweet tie that binds you fast,

Embracing you with elemental need.

Regardless of reverses, it will last,

‘Mid grief and grace the gift of love-sown seed.

So may you cherish well what life has given,

Desiring what you have, though you have striven

Against your own unyielding gods within,

Yearning for a calmer, gentler wind.

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

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 17: Hold On to What You Know – That You’re in Love

Father's Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 16, 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 uncle.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Father's Day is not meant just for fathers.

An uncle, too, can claim his just reward.

The child has a need for loving men,

However they may be akin, and when

Each grows into adulthood, has a word

Required to describe a model other,

Singing just the name to hear the chord.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fath10.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

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.

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

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

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.

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