Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Face

October 7, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem declares a hopeless love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Beautiful eyes, beautiful face,

I'm shy to talk to you.

You're the eagle I must watch

No matter what I do.

You're the beauty, wild and free,

The mistress of my eyes,

Rolling through exultant air,

Alone in pristine skies.

I would take you for my own

Could I but have your wings,

Could I but go where night begins

And frozen sunlight sings.

Could I but have you for my love,

How might we fly together!

But I must watch you from below

And long for you forever.

But I must be the one below

And long for you forever.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Declaring Love

October 2: I’m Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

October 3: I’ve Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years

October 4: Just Wanted You to Know: I Love You

October 5: Perhaps It’s Far Too Early to Reveal

October 6: This Is the First Time I Have Ever Loved

October 7: Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Face

This Is the First Time I Have Ever Loved

October 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem declares love for the first time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

This is the first time I have ever loved;

Yours, the first face I cannot forget.

I think you are afraid, perhaps, and moved

To wonder whether you should do this yet.

I also am afraid, and yet I know

That wonder is a thing that needs a yes;

Should you step back and let this moment go,

Both you and I will have to live with less.

Please trust my love, as I must trust in yours.

It's strong as steel, as delicate as lace,

Immovable as battered granite shores:

I feel its power and unremitting grace.

So come, my love, and try this love with me;

Let your love speak, and then you will agree.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/first2.html. For more love poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Declaring Love

October 2: I’m Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

October 3: I’ve Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years

October 4: Just Wanted You to Know: I Love You

October 5: Perhaps It’s Far Too Early to Reveal

October 6: This Is the First Time I Have Ever Loved

Perhaps It's Far Too Early to Reveal

October 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is an acrostic name poem declaring love for the person who is named.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Perhaps it's far too early to reveal

A feeling not yet ready to be love.

The light of dawn, though hesitant, is real;

Real as well the hopes that time will prove.

I dance across the meadows of my heart

Carrying doubts that mingle joy and fear.

I know I'm half myself when we're apart;

All I want is with me when you're near.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Declaring Love

October 2: I’m Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

October 3: I’ve Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years

October 4: Just Wanted You to Know: I Love You

October 5: Perhaps It’s Far Too Early to Reveal

Just Wanted You to Know: I Love You

October 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem declares love for a close friend.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Just wanted you to know: I love you.

Months have passed since we became close friends.

Every day I find I'm thinking of you,

Though no word from you that message sends.

And yet we share all other thoughts and feelings:

I cannot wait to tell you of my day,

And you give me the gist of all your dealings,

Which makes me hope we walk in the same way.

Telling you this is opening a door

That never can be closed again, and yet

I must, because I ache for something more,

Something that I must risk all to get.

Some night, I hope, as we hang out somewhere,

I will reach for you, and you'll be 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/justw2.html. For more love poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Declaring Love

October 2: I’m Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

October 3: I’ve Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years

October 4: Just Wanted You to Know: I Love You

I've Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years

October 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem declares love for a long-separated loved one.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I've dreamed of loving you for many years,

Loving you each day and night, each hour,

Loving till each moment turns to tears

That flow into the garden where you flower.

Of course I must be me, as you are you,

But just as bushes planted side by side

So intertwine one cannot tell they're two,

So have I dreamed we would be unified.

And still I dream, though we have been apart

So long that I of you sometimes despaired,

Holding wounded hope within my heart

That through these frozen years my love be spared.

The world is a redaction of the dream.

My love’s beauty must my pain redeem.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Declaring Love

October 2: I’m Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

October 3: I’ve Dreamed of Loving You for Many Years

I'm Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

October 2, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem declares love for someone whose love seems out of reach.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I'm far too shy to tell you that I love you.

You're a star far from my plain earth.

I gaze and see no woman who's above you:

To me you are the cynosure of worth.

Yet with all your beauty you're a person

Like me in need of sympathy and love.

Your thoughts of me would not, I dare hope, worsen

If I in some way tried your heart to move.

There's pleasure, surely, drawn from the reflection

That someone, somewhere, worships your sweet face,

Thinks you are the summit of perfection,

Wants nothing more of life than your embrace.

The danger is you'll think it couldn't be;

So I suggest you see yourself through 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/imfar.html. For more love poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Declaring Love

October 2: I’m Far Too Shy to Tell You that I Love You

Clear Away the Cobwebs of Convention

October 1, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on the evening of September 29. The ten days between Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) are a time when one’s repentance may affect whether one is written into the book of life or the book of death for the coming year.

Today’s poem is a philosophical poem about the eternal nature of the past.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Clear away the cobwebs of convention!

Atonement’s not as simple as it seems.

A deed, once done, is stone, beyond redemption,

More absolute than anyone might dream.

Oh, yes, one still should pray to be forgiven,

And try with all one's love to make things right.

But what one does, by faith or passion driven,

Becomes a stela in the morning light.

The past cannot be changed – it is forever,

Eternally defining who one is.

Time may seem as fluid as a river,

But once past, is a graveyard sunk in mist.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/clear3.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement

September 25: Holiness and Faith Are the Rewards

September 26: How Might I, in Faith, Do as You Ask

September 27: You’d Like a Shot at Serious Redemption

September 28: You Are Not, Will Not, Do Not What You Dream

September 29: You Cannot Be the Person You Might Wish

September 30: I Sing to You When Words Are Not Enough

October 1: Clear Away the Cobwebs of Convention