Sometimes Time Cracks Open like a Nut

April 29, 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 poem about love and time:

Sometimes time cracks open like a nut,

Revealing life's meat neatly nestled in.

Between such moments time is like a river

Flowing towards some dark and angry dream.

My love for you breaks through the skin of sky,

Breaks through the dream of time, more real than real.

I choose to anchor life on this fixed point,

A passion deep enough to plumb the sea.

Did this love choose me when we first met?

Was I seized by something more than life?

All I know is through our love I've found

A loveliness more tangible than time.

© 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

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

4/26: Take It as a Given that I Love You

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

4/28: Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

4/29: Sometimes Time Cracks Open like a Nut

Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

April 28, 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 arguing that love should be free:

Let me love you well, if not too long,

For passion is a lover of fresh air,

Relishing the landscape that is there.

Brief though it be, fulfillment can’t be wrong.

Let me make you part of my sweet song,

As I will be of yours, that both more fair

May part, enriched by what we share,

More seized by life, more gentle, and more strong.

For passion is a gift one should not squander

For fear of loss, losing life's best joy,

The ecstasy that we were meant to feel.

And if it comes and goes, then we must wander,

Enjoying what we're given to enjoy,

Reveling in what our loves reveal.

© 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

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

4/26: Take It as a Given that I Love You

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

4/28: Let Me Love You Well, if Not Too Long

I Know You in So Many Ways

April 27, 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 two kinds of love:

I know you in so many ways,

And yet I don't know you at all,

Will never know you,

For you are a mystery impenetrable

Even by love.

Love, like a wave, washes over the sand,

But then must roll back into itself,

Ever dying,

Ever resurrected.

Yet beyond love is another love

Which neither lives nor dies

But simply is --

Within us,

Beyond us,

Which we can touch by holding hands.

© 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

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

4/26: Take It as a Given that I Love You

4/27: I Know You in So Many Ways

Take It as a Given that I Love You

April 26, 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 poem in which the poet asks for the truth about a loved one’s love:

Take it as a given that I love you,

And let the conversation go from there.

There isn't much I wouldn't do to please you,

So tell me what to do to make you care.

Tell me what it is that turns you from me,

And why you cannot cherish who I am,

And why you must insist that you still love me

When so much that I do you cannot stand.

The truth is not at all what we imagine,

Reaching regions deeper than our thoughts.

Needs are rarely troubled by opinions,

And love gives no advice unless it's sought.

So plunge into yourself as in a sea,

Then tell me truly what you want of me.

© 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

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

4/26: Take It as a Given that I Love You

My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

April 25, 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 a loved one to the sun:

My lover bathes me in his precious light.

I am the Earth to his all-giving sun.

His needs are burned away in serving mine,

Consumed in the production of his love.

In my awe I'm sometimes forced to wonder:

How can such sweet radiance be sustained?

So selfless is the self in need of need,

So much in love with giving others love.

Still, the sun requires no return.

Light and life come humbly from its fire.

And so I worship him with fruit and flowers,

Grateful for the gift of being near.

© 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

4/25: My Lover Bathes Me in His Precious Light

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