Bridges Are a Sign of Separation

August 12, 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 about how separation provides the occasion for unity and grace.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Bridges are a sign of separation

Requiring ingenuity to span.

Inherent in the scheme of time and space,

Divisions are an opening to grace,

Granting an occasion for creation.

Each unity of purpose, plan, or place

Suggests a work meticulous and grand.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

August 10: For Every Moment You’re Immersed in Beauty

August 11: Sing of the Sweet Urge to Capture Beauty

August 12: Bridges Are a Sign of Separation

Sing of the Sweet Urge to Capture Beauty

August 11, 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 art as a lasting imitation of a fleeting reality.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sing of the sweet urge to capture beauty,

Endeavoring to pluck it from the stream.

Vivid though the moment might appear,

Embrace it and it is no longer here,

No less remote than a remembered dream.

The artist, though, creates a lasting copy.

Years pass, and yet the grace retains its gleam.

Each work of art gives form to a perception,

Imitating what the artist sees,

Granting lasting life to a conception,

Having caught the moment as it flees,

Then framed it to fence off its finities.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/sing10.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

August 10: For Every Moment You’re Immersed in Beauty

August 11: Sing of the Sweet Urge to Capture Beauty

For Every Moment You're Immersed in Beauty

August 10, 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 joy of being able to make a living from art.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For every moment you’re immersed in beauty,

In opening the curtains of the heart,

Forgetting that your pleasure is your duty,

That you have made a living from your art,

You feel the joy of God at the Creation,

The stepping back to see that it is good,

While in the golden grip of an elation

Out of which you will what worlds you would.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/forev7.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

August 10: For Every Moment You’re Immersed in Beauty

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