Time Diminishes What We Require

May 6, 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 the the lovely sadness of unsatisfied desire:

Time diminishes what we require.

What pain teaches, we learn perfectly.

Each builds a shore around his sea of gladness,

Not losing hope, nor giving way to madness,

Tougher without, within a little shyer,

Yearning always, but settling reasonably.

Often, though, we turn to lovely sadness,

Not willing to let go what we desire,

Even though we want what cannot be.

© 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

5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me

5/4: Loose Change

5/5: Everywhere Are Clocks

5/6: Time Diminishes What We Require

Everywhere Are Clocks

May 5, 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 psychological poem about the clocks that surround us:

Everywhere are clocks:

Timers turn leaves,

Tell birds to take off,

Fish to return home,

Restore desire,

Shift scenery in the night sky.

Lions and fish, crabs and virgins

Move to the music of the moon,

As we, too, dance to symphonies

Unheard. The year is a melody.

We sing our lives in harmony

With singers invisible, magical,

Fellow musicians whom we love

But do not know.

The air is alive with chimes

Which summon us to celebrations

At which we feast on tears.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

4/30: Abel Jeremiah

5/1: The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwelming

5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me

5/4: Loose Change

5/5: Everywhere Are Clocks

Loose Change

May 4, 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 psychological poem about the dangers of being too ready to please others:

Loose change (was that lose change?)

Spends easy. Like favors.

Like mornings or afternoons.

Time is easier than touch,

Being there easier than being.

How often, unthinking,

Do I spend a yes

To avoid breaking me?

© 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

5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me

5/4: Loose Change

I Doubt You'll Write This Poem for Me

May 3, 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 poem from the point of view of someone who lacks self-confidence:

I doubt you'll write this poem for me

Since I so rarely get

The things I set my heart upon,

The things I might regret.

So little do I now expect,

So little hope or fear,

I draw a circle round myself

And find my pleasure there.

I do not like my friends, nor do I

Think that they like me.

Their words are hard, like jagged rocks,

Their treacherous eyes like scree.

Alone I read, I dream, I like

My music loud, I wait

For something that will never come,

I fault my faultless fate.

I throw myself upon your will,

Yet know you will not say

The words that show me to myself

And burn my heart away.

© 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

5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me

Forty-Nine3

May 2, 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 number poem about the pleasures of the imagination:

Forty-nine’s a secret stowaway

On every ship that sails with the wind,

Returning to her satisfying life

To be the person that she left behind,

Yielding to the love that rules her day.

Nor should she, when her ship sets sail, stay

In deference to some dictate of the mind.

None need give up the gift of fictive play,

Enriched by more than any life might find.

© 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

5/2: Forty-Nine3

The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming

May 1, 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 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