Be Gentle: What You're Holding Is My Heart

October 8, 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 that declares love and asks for some gentleness in the reply.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Be gentle: What you're holding is my heart.

Remember in your honesty my pride.

If you don't want to see me, please don't hide

The truth, yet tell it with some art.

Though you may not have asked for me to call,

A single leap of hope must be allowed.

Not easily are shy songs sung out loud.

Yet now I wait your word outside your wall.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

October 8: Be Gentle: What You’re Holding Is My Heart

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