Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 18, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the survival of life on a devastated Earth.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even if the cities on the coast

Are inundated by the rising seas,

Ravaged dunes and barrier beaches lost

To tides that top steel berms and stunted trees,

Heat reaches for the poles, and life goes on,

Devastated, yes, surviving still,

As in times past whole habitats were drowned,

Yet this time only by an act of will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 17: Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

April 17, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the communal responsibility for destroying the environment.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Everyone is murdering the Earth.

All equally are guilty of this crime.

Redemption can be had, for what it’s worth,

Though we seem to lack both will and time.

How might we restructure all we do,

Deconstruct millennia of sin,

Adjust our dreams to what we know is true?

Yet we must remake ourselves 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/every8.html. For more poems for Earth Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/earthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 17: Everyone Is Murdering the Earth

If Each House Had a Solar Panel

April 16, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about replacing power plants with solar panels.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

If each house had a solar panel

Built into its roof,

Incentivized so profitably

That few would stay aloof,

Each would be, just like a leaf,

A mini power plant,

Of which there would be forests that

Would furnaces supplant.

The Earth would breathe again, and keep

Its streams and rivers wild,

Its oceans free of thick, black gook,

Its deserts undefiled.

Oh, yes, there would be power plants,

But few and far between,

As urban forests sprouted leaves

That turned the landscape green.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Earth Day

April 16: If Each House Had a Solar Panel

For a Year Now We've Been Living Together

April 15, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is for the first anniversary of living together unmarried.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For a year now we've been living together

In something less than marriage, more than friends,

Reasonably happy with each other,

Satisfied to serve our separate ends.

There are no promises, nor should there be,

As we pursue our passions day by day,

Needing only love, which we agree

Need not be guaranteed in any way.

In such a case, there is a case for giving

Very little, just enough to keep

Each even with the common cost of living,

Relating what we sow to what we reap.

So does love die, for love loves not the measure

Allocating carefully its treasure.

Reason may with reason count the cost,

Yet love that is not generous is lost.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

April 14: For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

April 15: For a Year Now We’ve Been Living Together

For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

April 14, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem comparing the anniversary to the peak of a mountain.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For me this year has been a special mountain,

Incandescent on its sunlit peak.

Revisiting its rich, eventful days,

So full of love, I think with joy of you.

There is no darkness on our lovely mountain

As I gaze from this first blissful peak.

Nothing I imagined yields these days:

Needing, wanting, loving, having you.

In earlier years I thought of this first mountain,

Visioning the vista from its peak,

Enwrapped in fantasies in those days:

Ripples in the darkness without you.

So shall I love you on this yearly mountain

As I gaze from its familiar peak,

Recalling the long innocence of days

Yearning for what I now have 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/forme.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

April 14: For Me This Year Has Been a Special Mountain

Happy First Anniversary

April 13, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about how love will grow over the years.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happy first anniversary!

A milestone, indeed!

Praised be those whose pleasure serves,

Perhaps, a deeper need.

Years will add a certain weight;

For now, all seems sublime.

Intimacy intimates

Rewards that grow with time.

So will love increasingly

Two separate souls combine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ27.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 13: Happy First Anniversary

First Anniversaries Replay a Tune

April 12, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a first anniversary poem about how the inner music of love grows richer with time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

First anniversaries replay a tune

In which there is much music yet unheard,

Repeating lyrics, yet not word for word,

Sensing something new and still rough hewn.

Then sing with joy that old, familiar song

And listen for the notes you cannot hear,

Notes that play but to the inner ear,

Notes unfamiliar as you sing along.

In silence underneath your celebration,

Vivid lies the truth of which you sing,

Enduring, as your passion turns to feeling,

Richer, more complex, yet more secure.

So will you sense this sense without sensation

As you let the bells of glory ring,

Rejoicing in the rhythms of love's meaning,

Yielding to what must be still obscure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: First Anniversaries

April 9: Until We Met I Didn’t Know

April 10: One Year Has Passed, and Still We Are in Love

April 11: This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best

April 12: First Anniversaries Replay a Tune