Do You Want Me? What's the Matter?

November 17, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is from girl to boy about the hypocrisy of wanting both freedom and possession.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Do you want me? What's the matter?

You're afraid some door will close?

You want the scent without the rose?

The moans of love without the chatter?

You think our love might be a tomb,

The only exit through my pain?

You'd rather put things off again

To give your fantasies some room?

You think: she's great, but in a while

I might get bored? Or something better,

Filling out a tighter sweater,

Might flash me a quick come-on smile?

You don't want to be tied just yet

To just one future, just one kiss?

You think about all that you might miss

And hold out for a better bet?

Well, fine! But then why do you haunt

Me like a jackal night and day?

Why, when my interest seems to stray,

Are you so sure of what you want?

Why, when I dare so much as laugh

At some guy's jokes, you go ballistic,

Nasty, borderline sadistic,

As if somebody touched your stuff?

And yet when I hook on to you,

You will not let yourself be mine,

Take out your fears and draw a line

Between what you and I can do?

But freedom must be mutual,

And it takes two for one embrace.

You can't both love and freedom chase,

Unless you would adore a fool.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Love

November 13: All I Ever Wanted Is in You

November 14: Before You, I Was Just Hanging Out

November 15: Chris and I Went Out Awhile Back

November 16: Do Not Doubt I Love You

November 17: Do You Want Me? What’s the Matter?

Do Not Doubt I Love You

November 16, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is an I’m-sorry love poem from an unfaithful lover.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Do not doubt I love you, even though

My actions may have undermined my words.

We could be as connubial as birds

Had I not let my wild longings show.

I cannot help wanting to devour

All the world that comes before my eyes;

But more than all the world is that which lies

Within the precious circle of our bower.

I'll do anything to keep you with me;

Our love will last as long as you have will.

Despite my untamed need, my love is still

A rock against the surges of the sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Love

November 13: All I Ever Wanted Is in You

November 14: Before You, I Was Just Hanging Out

November 15: Chris and I Went Out Awhile Back

November 16: Do Not Doubt I Love You

Chris and I Went Out Awhile Back

November 15, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about a second try at love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Chris and I went out awhile back.

It didn't work--I really don't know why.

Some unacknowledged dream was out of whack,

Went spinning off, and so we let it die.

Sometimes we attribute things to fate

When it's us, though we won't notice it.

Chris and I are back again--it's great!

We've both changed, and now we seem to fit.

I can't explain the happiness I find:

Chris smiles at me and something makes me glow.

Mysteries on mysteries unwind;

The deeper in we see, the less we know.

For now I think I'll just enjoy the ride;

Love Chris to bits, but still keep watch inside.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Love

November 13: All I Ever Wanted Is in You

November 14: Before You, I Was Just Hanging Out

November 15: Chris and I Went Out Awhile Back

Before You, I Was Just Hanging Out

November 14, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about how love can transform a life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Before you, I was just hanging out.

My days were all hubbub, no beauty.

Boredom seemed what life was all about.

Excitement meant going to a movie.

Then I fell in love with you; my mall

Opened to a sudden rush of sky;

Trees turned into happiness; and all

The things I had forgotten made me cry.

The loves that fasten one to life grew strong:

You, the thought of seeing you, your touch,

My love for those I'd loved my whole life long,

Knowing, but not feeling it too much.

You brought my life to life, my love to flower;

Now love me well, and through me taste your power.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Love

November 13: All I Ever Wanted Is in You

November 14: Before You, I Was Just Hanging Out

All I Ever Wanted Is in You

November 13, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem that lists what a lover desires.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

All I ever wanted is in you:

Love, laughter, trust that stills my fears.

I want to give and to be given to

So we might be one throughout the years

And share the painful and the joyful tears.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Love

November 13: All I Ever Wanted Is in You

Victories Retain the Stench of Death

November 12, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is war, in honor of Veterans Day, which was celebrated yesterday, November 11.

Today’s poem is a Veterans Day poem about honoring the dead on all sides.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Victories retain the stench of death.

Each is cause for gratitude, not joy.

Those who win are fated to destroy

Every grace whose beauty gives them breath.

Remember those who fell on every side,

And grieve not just for those you call your own.

No torturer or tyrant dies alone;

So may you weep for every fratricide.

Death is no fit dwelling place for pride,

And hatred's not a passion to enjoy,

Yet all who feel have reason to atone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/vetda2.html. For more Veterans Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/veteransdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Veterans Day

November 6: Veiled in Glory, One Looks Back and Grieves

November 7: Victories Require Validation

November 8: Veterans Have Served Their Time in Hell

November 9: Voices of the Dead Are Rarely Heard

November 10: Velcro Feelings Disconnect

November 11: Veterans Are Fugitives from Hell

November 12: Victories Retain the Stench of Death

Veterans Are Fugitives from Hell

November 11, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is war, in honor of Veterans Day, which is celebrated today, November 11.

Today’s poem is a Veterans Day poem about how one’s hardened heart is not so easily softened.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Veterans are fugitives from hell,

Escapees from death pursued by pain.

The truth they left behind makes truth insane;

Each nightmare is a truth they know too well.

Reason is unreasonable when words

Are whips that drive believers to the kill,

Necessary to sustain a will

Stirred by the sweet morning songs of birds.

Decencies are frills to put aside

As hearts are hardened for the jolting ride,

Yet on return are clamped and hardened still.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/veter2.html. For more Veterans Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/veteransdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Veterans Day

November 6: Veiled in Glory, One Looks Back and Grieves

November 7: Victories Require Validation

November 8: Veterans Have Served Their Time in Hell

November 9: Voices of the Dead Are Rarely Heard

November 10: Velcro Feelings Disconnect

November 11: Veterans Are Fugitives from Hell