Reason Doesn't Travel Well

May 16, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spirituality, in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on May 16^th.

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A Ramadan poem about the limitations of reason:

Reason doesn’t travel well

Across the desert sand.

Maybe it needs quince to quell

A hunger for command.

Do not think it will survive

A long and thirsty camel ride,

No nutrient near at hand.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spirituality

5/14: Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands

5/15: Alyssa

5/16: Reason Doesn’t Travel Well

Alyssa

May 15, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spirituality, in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on May 16^th.

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

A name poem for a new-born child just descended from Heaven:

Alyssa's the angel I hold in my arms

Like a spirit not yet metamorphed to a self.

Yet anchored in life by my love unrestrained,

Sucking my breast that her flesh be maintained,

She crosses from Heaven that wild-flowered gulf

As her Eden gives way to fences and farms.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spirituality

5/14: Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands

5/15: Alyssa

Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands

May 14, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spirituality, in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on May 16^th.

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

A number poem about how one might commandeer one’s life:

Time passes like a stream in which one stands.

How strange and beautiful! Life goes by

In moments that run through one’s open hands,

Real in ways that none can clarify,

Though like a dream that only seems to be.

Yet every moment is eternity.

So might one commandeer what life commands,

Infinite beyond all how or why,

X upon a calm and windless sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spirituality

5/14: Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands

M Is for the Miracle of Being

May 13, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated today, May 13^th.

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

An acrostic Mother’s Day poem with a separate quality for each letter of MOTHER:

M is for the miracle of Being.

O is for its origin in love.

T is for a tenderness that’s freeing.

H is for a heart no hardships move.

E is the embrace that lights up living.

R is for the recklessness of giving.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

5/11: Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

5/12: Make What You Will of Martyrdom

5/13: M Is for the Miracle of Being

Make What You Will of Martyrdom

May 12, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which will be celebrated tomorrow, May 13^th.

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

A Mother’s Day poem about mothers and martyrdom:

Make what you will of martyrdom, a mother

Opts for saintly sacrifice of self,

Taking for her centerpiece another,

Having crossed that great, unquiet gulf.

Each must choose to give herself away,

Redeemed alone by love each hard-earned day,

Sensing grace too beautiful to utter.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

5/11: Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

5/12: Make What You Will of Martyrdom

Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

May 11, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13^th.

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

A Mother’s Day poem about hope and time:

Hope is in the hollow of your heart,

A place that’s safe from everyday despair,

Part of you with which you’ll never part,

Part of you that always will be there.

Years pass, your child becomes who she will be,

More herself, less the self you dreamed,

One who is more act, less potency,

Though still no less the gift that she first seemed.

How might you hope as much as years go by,

Even as time offers you less room,

Refusing to ignore the truth or lie

‘Mid gardens still in leaf but past their bloom?

Sing of hope, that is with fortune born,

Desiring joy at night as much as morn,

Alive with dreams and wonder, just as when

You were a child, now no less than then.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

5/11: Hope Is in the Hollow of Your Heart

To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children

May 10, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13^th.

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

A Mother’s Day poem to the mothers of children who died in the womb:

To the mothers of children who never were children,

Who died in the womb unnamed and unknown:

You also were mothers, albeit but briefly,

And loved with the love given mothers alone.

Yours was the stirring of life within life,

The being of being all one being knew,

The love of a love that knew only your love,

The world to a world that knew no world but you.

Yours the unspeakable pleasure of giving

Your substance to nurture the creature within;

Yours the inscrutable song of creation,

Bringing to being the dust of the wind.

Death is the end, but never the meaning;

Life is a gift, no matter how long.

You, too, are mothers, the bearers of beauty,

The icons of love to whom this day belongs.https://www.poemsforfree.com/tothem.html

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/7: How Might One Bring to Leaf a Separate Soul

5/8: I See You Working Hard for Me

5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

5/10: To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children