You Think You Can Just Dive into the Sky

January 5, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphany, both for the holiday that falls on January 6^th and in the sense of any sudden insight or perception of meaning.

Today’s poem is about the wonderful arrogance of thinking you can have epiphanies.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You think you can just dive into the sky,

Wake up bluebells with a sunny smile,

Explode like a nebula, devour light like a black hole.

You think, just because you are motionless,

Time falls through you,

And your imagination has the reach of God.

You think, whirling like a meteorite towards death,

Incandescent with the loveliness of an April morning,

You can, even for a moment, be eternal.

You think that just because you can think these things,

You can be these things, that poetry is truth,

And that you, tiny insignificant you, can just dive into the sky.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/youth2.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: New Year’s/Epiphany

January 1: Happiness Is Something that One Settles for

January 2: Joy Leaves a Bit of Wonder in Its Wake

January 3: There Is Much Pleasure in the Love of Learning

January 4: Cyberspace, Silent Space

January 5: You Think You Can Just Dive into the Sky

Cyberspace, Silent Space

January 4, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphany, both for the holiday that falls on January 6^th and in the sense of any sudden insight or perception of meaning.

Today’s poem is a philosophical poem about the epiphanies that surround us.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Cyberspace, silent space;

Outer, inner sense of place.

Current with the human race;

The Infinite’s imagined face.

All the world in one’s embrace;

All existence in each trace.

Time goes on; one keeps apace;

Time stops, and one is filled with grace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: New Year’s/Epiphany

January 1: Happiness Is Something that One Settles for

January 2: Joy Leaves a Bit of Wonder in Its Wake

January 3: There Is Much Pleasure in the Love of Learning

January 4: Cyberspace, Silent Space

There Is Much Pleasure in the Love of Learning

January 3, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphany, both for the holiday that falls on January 6^th and in the sense of any sudden insight or perception of meaning.

Today’s poem is a number poem for a twelve-year-old about the epiphanies that come from learning.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is much pleasure in the love of learning,

When all the world unfolds before your eyes.

Each new thing that you can know or do

Leaves you with a greater sense of you.

Vistas come before you undisguised,

Each with insights churning, turning, burning.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/ther41.html. For more poems to children, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/childrenpoems.html .

This week’s theme: New Year’s/Epiphany

January 1: Happiness Is Something that One Settles for

January 2: Joy Leaves a Bit of Wonder in Its Wake

January 3: There Is Much Pleasure in the Love of Learning

Joy Leaves a Bit of Wonder in Its Wake

January 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphany, both for the holiday that falls on January 6^th and in the sense of any sudden insight or perception of meaning.

Today’s poem is a philosophical name poem about capturing the wonder of joy through art.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Joy leaves a bit of wonder in its wake,

A sliver of silence, celibate and bright.

Some would sell their souls to get it right;

Others such ambition would forsake,

Not willing to pursue so chaste a light.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: New Year’s/Epiphany

January 1: Happiness Is Something that One Settles For

January 2: Joy Leaves a Bit of Wonder in Its Wake

Happiness Is Something That One Settles for:

January 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphany, both for the holiday that falls on January 6^th and in the sense of any sudden insight or perception of meaning. But since New Year’s Day falls on a Monday this year, we’ll have one more New Year’s poem for today and then begin the theme of epiphany tomorrow.

Today’s poem is a New Year’s poem about happiness and time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness is something that one settles for

After the ups and downs of ecstasy.

Perhaps one doesn't know what one is looking for;

Perhaps one doesn't realize one is free.

Year's end is time to tally up the tentacles,

Needing an occasion to take stock.

Everywhere are angels singing canticles

Well beyond the confines of the clock.

Years, no more than seconds, are but moments,

Each eternity again, again.

All live on the wheel of joys and torments,

Returning to the ramparts of the wind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ23.html. For more poems for the New Year, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/newyearsdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: New Year’s/Epiphany

January 1: Happiness Is Something that One Settles for

Here Again We Have a New Beginning

December 31, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is new beginnings, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem is a New Year’s poem about beginning repeatedly at the start of each new year.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here again we have a new beginning,

An old refrain to start a brand-new verse.

Perhaps the belly droops, the hair is thinning;

Perhaps each year the memory gets worse.

Yet new beginnings always start with hope,

Needing hope to nurture innocence,

Endeavoring to find a way to cope

When nothing deeply thought about makes sense.

Years come and go; Eden doesn’t change.

Each new year we toddle forth again,

Afoot into a world that’s ever strange,

Restored by some great turning tide within.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 26: Iven Lee

December 27: Sixty-Six3

December 28: Fifty-Two4

December 29: Thirteen2

December 30: Welcome to Our Family

December 31: Here Again We Have a New Beginning

Welcome to Our Family

December 30, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is new beginnings, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem welcomes a newborn into his or her adoptive family.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Welcome to our family,

Dear child of our hearts!

Welcome to the bond of love

Of which you now are part.

Welcome to our waiting arms

That will your world enfold.

Welcome to our way of life

That will your future mold.

Welcome to our hopes and dreams,

Our faults and foibles, too,

For some of our soul-seeds, hand sown,

Will bear sweet fruit in you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/welco5.html. For more poems about adoption, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/adoptionpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 26: Iven Lee

December 27: Sixty-Six3

December 28: Fifty-Two4

December 29: Thirteen2

December 30: Welcome to Our Family