I Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with You

April 24, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about discovering what love feels like:

I never thought I'd fall in love with you.

I thought someday, of course, I'd fall in love.

But what it felt like, I just never knew;

I'd no idea what I was thinking of.

And then, somewhere between my need and pleasure,

Walking neither overjoyed nor sad,

I looked into my heart and saw a treasure

Worth more than anything I'd ever had.

Ah! This is love! I thought. And then I wanted

To give my life to see your happiness.

Suddenly, from nowhere, I was haunted,

Needy, joyful, tearful, glad, obsessed.

My love for you has brought me out of me.

The world’s more precious, now that I can see.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

4/24: I Never Thought I’d Fall in Love with You

Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

April 23, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem comparing the loved one to the sea:

Your soul is like the vastest sea

And mine a darting fish:

I lose myself within your love;

I live within your heart.

I breathe your love: it is my air,

My element, my world.

I know no other ambiance;

I have no other dream.

I know there is outside your love

A world of rocks and sand;

And I could live there, too, but oh!

How poor and thin each breath!

How rich my world, how beautiful,

Alive within your love,

Each moment filled with dancing light

Refracted through your eyes!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

4/23: Your Soul Is like the Vastest Sea

Each Must Save the Earth in Multiple Ways

April 22, 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 today, April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the need for political activity to save the Earth.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Each must save the Earth in multiple ways.

A vote can cut more carbon than a bulb.

Rules, like acid rain, can span the globe,

Taking aim at those whom blight won't faze.

Hard as many try, it will not do.

Development devours their mite and more.

An equal sacrifice requires a law.

Yet laws are passed by those obliged to 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/eachmu.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

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 19: Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 21: Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

April 22: Each Must Save the Earth in Multiple Ways

Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

April 21, 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 tomorrow, April 22^nd.

Today’s poem is a poem for Earth Day about the self-destructiveness of greed.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even the Earth knows well the market must

Align itself with something more than greed.

Ravenous monsters on the future feed,

Their fangs ripping at Earth's delicate crust.

How might one profit from an empty sea,

Drawing dividends from dying streams?

Although one might find riches at the seams,

Yet none will prosper once the Earth is scree.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/event5.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

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 19: Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 21: Even the Earth Knows Well the Market Must

Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

April 20, 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 comparing organized political activity to a rainstorm.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Each of us is like one drop of rain,

A single splatter on the thirsty sand.

Remember, though, that drops fall not alone,

The products and producers of a grand

Harmony that waters well the plain.

Do not think, then, that you're on your own,

A tiny drop upon a dying land.

You are a storm, whose green fields will remain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/eacho3.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

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 19: Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 20: Each of Us Is like One Drop of Rain

Environment Is Greater than Environs

April 19, 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 how profoundly the environment is global.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Environment is greater than environs,

As Sahel sand feeds forests in Brazil,

Russian winters cool Antarctic krill,

The price of phones affects the fate of lions.

How foolish, then, to think in terms of nations,

Dividing what is indivisible,

As though each government could work its will.

Yet melting ice can jiggle Earth’s gyrations.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast

April 19: Environment Is Greater than Environs

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

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

April 18: Even if the Cities on the Coast