It's as if We Were Riding in a Sealed Railroad Car

February 9, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a love poem about seeing life's beauty.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

It's as if we were riding in a sealed railroad car.

Life passes by unseen.

Then someone throws open the door.

In the fierce sunlight we sense joy

But cannot clearly see.

How beautiful! we murmur, weeping,

Our tears like music.

Why haven't we known this all along?

In an open field we dance

Under sun and moon and stars all together.

You press my hand. You say:

I can't believe it!

I can't believe life has always been so lovely!

I tell you, my darling,

I tell you now, yes!

Yes, it is, my darling,

Yes. It is.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 5: Please Don’t Spaz if I Should Ask You Out

February 6: Some People Think that Friends Should Be Just Friends

February 7: How Can I Tell You What I Feel for You

February 8: I Am Afraid to Love, and yet I Love You

February 9: It’s as if We Were Riding in a Sealed Railroad Car

I Am Afraid to Love, and yet I Love You

February 8, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a love poem about the fear of love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I am afraid to love, and yet I love you.

My fear is like a wall I walk right through.

The wall is there, and yet it doesn't stop me.

I need it still, and yet I still need you.

I know someday we will be in a field

Surrounded by the blessing of the sky.

I'll dance with all the freedom of pure joy,

Needing you without a reason why.

But now I'm still afraid that I might lose you,

That you might not accept my desperate need.

You make me laugh and cry and be completely.

You are the flower, I the slender reed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 5: Please Don’t Spaz if I Should Ask You Out

February 6: Some People Think that Friends Should Be Just Friends

February 7: How Can I Tell You What I Feel for You

February 8: I Am Afraid to Love, and yet I Love You

How Can I Tell You What I Feel for You

February 7, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a love poem about the difficulty of declaring one’s love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How can I tell you what I feel for you?

When I think of you my feelings twist inside

As if someone's fist reached in and grabbed a few,

And turned and turned them tight and tangled. I've tried

Somehow to say: You're the sun in my sky,

The wind that takes me where I want to go,

The sweet incense that makes me feel so high

That loving you seems all I need to know.

But it all sticks in my throat! It sounds too cute,

Empty as a wrinkled paper bag.

You won't believe it! Better I stay mute

Than offer you clichés that make you gag.

And yet I wish to tell you of my love,

If only love its own locks would remove!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/howca4.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 5: Please Don’t Spaz if I Should Ask You Out

February 6: Some People Think that Friends Should Be JustFriends

February 7: How Can I Tell You What I Feel for You

Some People Think that Friends Should Be Just Friends

February 6, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a love poem to a friend, asking for something more than friendship.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Some people think that friends should be just friends;

To try for more might ruin what they have.

I think the closest friend is one you love,

Sharing life with words and lips and hands.

One caress unravels mysteries

Lodged behind the most elaborate mask.

The revelation's more than worth the risk.

I want with you such sweet simplicities.

I want us to be friends who now are free

To speak with all the languages of touch.

I want to share your anguish with a kiss

And feel your happiness against my cheek.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 5: Please Don’t Spaz if I Should Ask You Out

February 6: Some People Think that Friends Should Be Just Friends

Please Don't Spaz if I Should Ask You Out

February 5, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a love poem in which a girl asks a guy out for a casual date.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Please don't spaz if I should ask you out.

A girl can ask a guy out on a date.

If she likes the guy, I mean, why wait?

Taking risks is what it's all about.

So we have some dinner, maybe dance,

Go out to a bar and have a drink.

You ask me this or that and what I think.

No need right away for a romance.

Why not just two people having fun,

Being with each other, nothing more.

And then, or then not, opening a door

To see what else might happen with this one.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 5: Please Don’t Spaz if I Should Ask You Out

How Can One Moment Hold the Work of Years

February 4, 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 anniversary poem from children to parents.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How can one moment hold the work of years,

As if time could be gathered in a sea?

Perhaps one might sail upon one's tears,

Pensive in the drift of memory.

Yet now is time to celebrate your love

After many years of loving well.

Now we, whose lives your hearts and spirits move,

Need our joy and happiness to tell.

In your love is our ancestral home.

Vistas in our hearts come from your fields.

Eden rests with you, that we may roam

Rich in dreams that early sunlight yields.

So may you savor this, your special day,

And sweet, sweet memories the time delay,

Recalling with fresh wonderment the life

You've shared so long in love as man and wife.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/howca7.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

February 1: Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

February 2: Fifty Years Is a Long Time to Be Married

February 3: How Wonderful to Have You in My Life

February 4: How Can One Moment Hold the Work of Years

How Wonderful to Have You in My Life

February 3, 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 anniversary poem expressing the joy of married love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How wonderful to have you in my life!

All my feelings whirl about my heart!

Perhaps I can't contain that I'm your wife;

Perhaps I don't know how or where to start.

You have me always, no matter what you do:

A gift I give my gift, joyously.

Nothing means as much to me as you;

Nothing else so fully makes me, me.

If I had everything that God could grant,

Very little there would bring me peace.

Enwrapped in you is everything I want:

Rapture, warmth, affection, sweet release.

So strong my love! So happy, sure, and strong!

A thousand thousand years would not seem long!

Reason tells me everything must end,

Yet you will always be my lover-friend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

January 29: Happy Eleventh Anniversary

January 30: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

January 31: Here We Have Two People Much in Love

February 1: Thank You for Being the Love of My Life

February 2: Fifty Years Is a Long Time to Be Married

February 3: How Wonderful to Have You in My Life