Souls Seem to Stay the Same; the Body Ages

May 18, 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.

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

A number poem about the eternal nature of the soul:

Souls seem to stay the same; the body ages.

In time we change, though somehow souls remain

X’s anchored deep beneath the sea,

The bobbing buoys that lean and shift and sway,

Yet mark their place as life goes through its stages.

For throughout our joy, guilt, ecstasy, and pain;

In spite of all the love along the way;

Vivid though our passions, prayers, and rages;

Each soul still sojourns in eternity.

© 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

5/17: If Reason Is the Word, Faith’s the Music

5/18: Souls Seem to Stay the Same; the Body Ages

If Reason Is the Word, Faith's the Music

May 17, 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 poem comparing reason to words and faith to music:

If reason is the word, faith’s the music.

One yields sanity; the other, grace,

Allowing those who have the heart to choose it

To dance through life with Being face to face.

One need not, of course, turn on the music.

Words alone are not devoid of grace.

For cool-eyed skeptics who choose not to choose it,

Faith paints on the void a dancer’s face.

Can one, ought one do without the music?

Does not silence yield a deeper grace?

Still, the song’s so beautiful some choose it,

A truth one need not doubt or fear to face.

© 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

5/17: If Reason Is the Word, Faith’s the Music

Reason Doesn't Travel Well

May 16, 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 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