Changes Find Their Agent in Obsession

October 12, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is discovery in honor of Columbus Day, which was celebrated on October 9.

Today’s poem is about the need for obsession to bring about change.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Changes find their agent in obsession.

Old visions do not yield but to a sea.

Life is myth undone by mystery.

Underneath the truth lies the expression.

Meaning is the mask of history,

Best worn by those in undisturbed possession.

Ultimately, there is no progression.

Sing, then, of change, and savor what will be!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/chang2.html. For more Columbus Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/columbusdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Discovery

October 9: Can One Ever See What Lies Beyond

October 10: Care to Come with Me to Outer Space

October 11: Challenging the Veil Does Not Come Cheap

October 12: Changes Find Their Agent in Obsession

Challenging the Veil Does Not Come Cheap

October 11, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is discovery in honor of Columbus Day, which was celebrated on October 9.

Today’s poem is about the sacrifices necessary for a life of discovery.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Challenging the veil does not come cheap.

One gets to know the provenance of hunger,

Living off the energy of wonder,

Unwilling to trade ecstasy for sleep.

More than life, one must want to be

Bestride the instant of the revelation,

Uniting image and imagination,

Seeing first what now the world might see.

Dread and longing dance across one's dreams,

Alive with hope for charismatic schemes.

Years wearied, wasted, wait impatiently.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Discovery

October 9: Can One Ever See What Lies Beyond

October 10: Care to Come with Me to Outer Space

October 11: Challenging the Veil Does Not Come Cheap

Care to Come with Me to Outer Space

October 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is discovery in honor of Columbus Day, which was celebrated on October 9.

Today’s poem is about new voyages of discovery in outer space.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Care to come with me to outer space?

On wings of will we fly across the void,

Landing in a wilderness of wonders.

Unchain yourselves from now! The present plunders

More than you imagine, dreams destroyed

By labyrinths no longing can retrace.

Ultimately, one pursues the grace

Sought by the heart, or finds oneself employed

Doing what must one's sweet substance squander.

As in my time, great seas, of sails devoid,

Yet beckon to the winds that guide the race.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Discovery

October 9: Can One Ever See What Lies Beyond

October 10: Care to Come with Me to Outer Space

Can One Ever See What Lies Beyond

October 9, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is discovery in honor of Columbus Day, which is celebrated today, October 9.

Today’s poem is about discovery as a natural part of the human condition.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Can one ever see what lies beyond?

One cannot help but sail for shores unknown,

Leaving everything one loves behind.

Ultimately, one must live alone.

Maybe that's OK. One needn't weep.

Blessed are those who sail willingly,

Unafraid to lose what they can't keep,

Singing to the silence of the sea.

Do, then, dare to choose your mortal state

And relish the adventure of your fate,

Yearning only for the grace to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Discovery

October 9: Can One Ever See What Lies Beyond

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