Sing of Passions Greater than the Self

August 9, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is artistic creativity.

Today’s poem is a number poem about how creative inspiration seems to come from beyond the self.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sing of passions greater than the self,

Intimations turned to words and music,

X’s on eternity, revealing

The genius of one’s muse, if one would use it,

Yielding to a voice beyond the gulf.

Even so, one is forced to wander

In search of that sweet touch of inspiration,

Grace that does not come without one’s calling,

Hours, days, weeks of fierce frustration,

Then the gift to which one would surrender.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/singo9.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Artistic Creativity

August 7: Songs Lend Thought the Persuasive Force of Beauty

August 8: For You There Will Be Always Gifts of Beauty

August 9: Sing of Passions Greater than the Self

For You There Will Be Always Gifts of Beauty

August 8, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is artistic creativity.

Today’s poem is a number poem about how the gift of creativity affects one’s life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For you there will be always gifts of beauty,

Opening a window onto Heaven,

Restoring you to innocence and joy.

Though sorrow is for everyone a given,

Yours will be a store you will employ.

So does one blend one’s blessings with one’s duty.

If one has gifts, one by those gifts is driven,

Xerophyte no desert can destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/foryo7.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Artistic Creativity

August 7: Songs Lend Thought the Persuasive Force of Beauty

August 8: For You There Will Be Always Gifts of Beauty

Songs Lend Thought the Persuasive Force of Beauty

August 7, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is artistic creativity.

Today’s poem is a number poem about the power of songs and the difficulty of writing them.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Songs lend thought the persuasive force of beauty,

Enduring longer than the naked word.

Vested in a song, one does one’s duty,

Ever the evangelistic bird.

Nor ought one’s passion strike one as absurd.

The gift of song comes with the gift of yearning,

Years and years of wanting, wishing, burning.

Sing, then, of song, and of its intimate power,

Each singer in the grip of its embrace,

Vividly reworking, listening, learning,

Ever on the ragged edge of grace,

Needing patient urgency to flower.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Artistic Creativity

August 7: Songs Lend Thought the Persuasive Force of Beauty

Summer4

August 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is summer.

Today’s poem is a calendar poem about the ecstatic joy of summer.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Summer is the zenith of the year:

Upward spring, sweet summer, downward fall.

Maybe life sings like sun-drunk cicadas,

Music drowning beds of squash and taters,

Each tiny creature pouring out its call,

Rejoicing in the joy of now and here.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer

July 31: Summer2

August 1: August

August 2: The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains

August 3: Brittany

August 4: Thirty-Five

August 5: Linda

August 6: Summer4

Linda

August 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is summer.

Today’s poem is a name poem for a woman who loves long summer afternoons.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Linda loves long summer afternoons.

Inside voices hush, the wind subsides.

Night waits as golden sorrow bathes her heart,

Deep cleansing beneath angry lips of wounds,

Absorbing pain where hunger still abides.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer

July 31: Summer2

August 1: August

August 2: The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains

August 3: Brittany

August 4: Thirty-Five

August 5: Linda

Thirty-Five

August 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is summer.

Today’s poem is a number poem about how deep scars can hide beneath thick summer bloom.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thirty-five's a whisper in the sunlight

Half-submerged in butterflies and bees.

Intimations run like rutted scars,

Remembrances of wounds beneath delight

Thick with summer bloom like rainbow seas.

Yet night brings on a wild rage of stars.

For what is this ejaculate of light?

In pain and wonder, awe and agony,

Viewing silent, distant ecstasies,

Estranged from love by strong, protective bars.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/35.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Summer

July 31: Summer2

August 1: August

August 2: The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains

August 3: Brittany

August 4: Thirty-Five

Brittany

August 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is summer.

Today’s poem is a name poem for someone who, in the summer of her life, yearns for childhood innocence.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Brittany is a white winter morning

Residing momently on summer grass:

Innocence remains, but the sun soon

Turns crystal sprites to life-giving tears.

The radiant images of childhood years

Are dancing in the dream light of her moon.

Now she looks with pleasure as they pass,

Yearning for a love that’s ever dawning.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer

July 31: Summer2

August 1: August

August 2: The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains

August 3: Brittany