Monday, January 29, 2018

Until We Met I Didn't Know

January 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about happiness realized.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Until we met I didn't know
How light a heart could be;
How, chained to one by bonds of love,
I still could feel so free.

I didn't realize that my dreams
Could ever be so real;
Or when I had all I could want,
Exactly how I'd feel.

This year of love has brought me through
A long-awaited door:
Were angels parked along our skies,
I could not love you more.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 29, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is an 11th anniversary poem in which the day becomes a still lake mirroring the couple’s love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happy eleventh anniversary!
All those years distilled into one glass!
Praised be those who will the things that last,
Pausing to renew them annually!
Years are music to which all must dance,
Ever changing, ever just the same,
Lending love a moment that remains
Embedded in the rhythms of romance.
Volumes can be captured in a word;
Empires, in a logo lifted high.
Nestled in this moment is the sky
Trembling, as two lovers might observe,
Heaven in one blue, reflective eye.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ82.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Tarrah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away

January 28, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is dance, used metaphorically.

Today’s poem is a name poem about the death of two children in which the dance is not yet over.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Tarah and Serrin have not passed away.
A dance is not over when dancing is done.
Remembering them is like feeling the sun
As the moon turns to silver the black-bordered bay.
How can one ferret out words that might say
All the truth of the truth that two children are gone?
Not just the meaning but also the song,
Deepening what no dissent can delay.
So may we linger with them for a while,
Each moment a moment of beauty and pain,
Restoring a sense that makes no sense at all.
Reason alone cannot sponsor a smile.
In faith and desire we see them again
Nearby, still dancing beyond a glass 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/taraha.html. For more poems about death, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Dance, Used Metaphorically
January 22: Kaylee
January 28: Tarah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away

Friday, January 26, 2018

Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill

January 27, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is dance, used metaphorically.

Today’s poem is a love poem about a love that needs to dance.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Our love has slowly gone downhill,
Heavy with mundane demands,
The dregs of days spent dutiful
While hunger goes to sleep unfed.

We love each other still, of course,
But love is listless, fretful, tired,
Pining for the potent word
That comes from angels in the heart.

Oh, say it, Love, and I will, too!
And time will wait for us to dance,
Touched by one another's grace
To give what we so long have sought.

There is a passion undismayed
That lives throughout the long, gray days
Of work and worry, knowing that
Our patient love awaits our will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/ourlo3.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Dance, Used Metaphorically
January 22: Kaylee
January 27: Our Love Has Slowly Gone Downhill

Thursday, January 25, 2018

So Shall the Changing Seasons Mark the Year

January 26, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is dance, used metaphorically.

Today’s poem is a Seasons Greetings poem in which one dances to the rhythm of the year.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

So shall the changing seasons mark the year,
Earth tilted at an angle towards the sun,
As all dance to that rhythm, everyone
Singing down the days, sun-drenched or drear.
One needs holidays to make things clear,
Needs rhythms to reveal how time will run,
Singing as the cycle’s almost done,
Glad still to be although the cold winds near.
Remember that this time of celebration
Endures within the vestibule of winter,
Endures because one’s joy in life requires
That one undo the dark with inner light.
It needs an unremitting affirmation,
Not least because the season can be bitter,
Grace consuming one’s lifelong desires,
So beautiful one dances into night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/sosha2.html. For more Season’s Greetings poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Dance, Used Metaphorically
January 22: Kaylee
January 26: So Shall the Changing Seasons Mark the Year

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

It All Went Far Too Quickly

January 25, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is dance, used metaphorically.

Today’s poem is a love poem expressing regret for not having danced awhile before heading for bed.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

It all went far too quickly when
We started our romance.
We went right for the Broadway stage
Before we learned to dance.

Naturally, we shared the fear
Of intimate intimacy,
And scared to stay while loath to part,
We both longed to be free.

Ah, me! Well, now we're separate
To see how we might feel.
And then perhaps we'll try again.
Our love, I think, is real.

But this time we'll go slow and ask,
Before we head for bed,
If we might try some artful grace
And dance awhile instead.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Dance, Used Metaphorically
January 22: Kaylee
January 25: It All Went Far Too Quickly

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Dinosaurs Will Dance All Day

January 24, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is dance, used metaphorically.

Today’s poem is a birthday poem for children in which dinosaurs dance.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Dinosaurs will dance all day
If you let the music play.
“Happy Birthday!” they will sing,
Crashing into everything,

Crushing cars and trucks and trains,
Bicycles, bridges, buses, planes,
Houses seven stories tall,
A factory, a shopping mall,

Having lots and lots of fun!
And before your birthday’s done,
You should dance and sing like them.
Well, maybe not just like them!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Dance, Used Metaphorically
January 22: Kaylee
January 24: Dinosaurs Will Dance All Day