Be My Valentine, for I

February 13, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14^th.

Today’s poem is a Valentine’s Day poem about the good that Valentines can do for one another.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Be my Valentine, for I

Each day have thought of you.

My whole life couldn’t manage what

Your ready smile can do,

Vanquishing my loneliness

And making me anew.

Let me be your Valentine

Even as you're mine,

Needing what I have to give

That each might each define

In friendship and in harmony,

Now you, now I the melody,

Each helping each to shine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/bemyv2.html. For more Valentine’s Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/valentinesdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

February 12: Vest Your Love in Me, as I in You

February 13: Be My Valentine, for I

Vest Your Love in Me, as I in You

February 12, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14^th.

Today’s poem is a Valentine’s Day poem about how mutual love restores lost innocence.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Vest your love in me, as I in you,

And we will share our bit of time in heaven,

Lost innocence regained through mutual love

Enduring in the hush of our embrace.

Nor will we find in life a greater grace,

The beauty of which will our choices move,

In spite of daily troubles, east towards Eden.

Nor will love be more sweet at dawn than evening,

Ever just as lovely, old or new.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

February 12: Vest Your Love in Me, as I in You

In Daylight You're a Haunting Melody

February 11, 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 that says I miss you.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

In daylight you're a haunting melody,

More lovely than the world before my eyes.

In darkness you become my symphony,

So much of me, I know no other ties.

So are you nestled with me night and day,

Your missing self transmuted into song,

Or walking close beside me on my way,

Unleashing all the love for which I long.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/inday.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

February 10: There Are No Bars to Our Embrace

February 11: In Daylight You’re a Haunting Melody

There Are No Bars to Our Embrace

February 10, 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 lover in prison.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There are no bars to our embrace,

No presence more than in the heart.

We live our lives with love and grace,

Together still, though still apart.

No presence more than in the heart,

No touch more salient than a dream.

Together still, though still apart,

We are more lucky than we seem.

No touch more salient than a dream,

Though dreams alone must sometimes be.

We are more lucky than we seem

If I trust you, and you trust me.

Though dreams alone must sometimes be,

We live our lives with love and grace.

If I trust you, and you trust me,

There are no bars to our embrace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/nobars.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

February 10: There Are No Bars to Our Embrace

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