The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

May 1, 2018

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

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

A number poem about pleasure and longing:

The pleasures of your life are overwhelming,

Having much to do with who you are.

In fact, there are so many things you treasure,

Rewarding you with deep, enduring pleasure,

That you must live beneath some lucky star.

Yet still you yearn for love, for joy, for meaning.

No one can live richly without longing.

In loving life, one reaches past the bar.

Nor can one feel the fullness of one’s feeling,

Embracing gifts no gratitude can measure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

5/1: The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

Abel Jeremiah

April 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem about sibling rivalry:

Abel Jeremiah is the younger

Brother of Cierra Juliann*.

Each day he stays awake a little longer,

Limbs flailing as he tries out what he can.

Just a few months old, he is already

Engaged in uninhibited flirtation,

Returning looks with wide eyes bright and steady,

Exploring the terrain of the relation.

Make room for him, Cierra, in your heart!

In time he will become a lifelong friend.

Although he draws all eyes as though by art,

He'll be drawn to your eyes in the end.

*See https://www.poemsforfree.com/cierra.html

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

Sometimes Time Cracks Open like a Nut

April 29, 2018

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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