Lisa

July 12, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

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

A name poem comparing a beautiful woman to a bowl of summer fruit:

Lisa is a sunlit bowl of fruit,

Indian-summer sweet, like juice just pressed:

Still-life apples, grapes in dew drops dressed,

And pregnant pears plucked mellowing and mute.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

7/10: Thirty-Five3

7/11: To Say You Are My World Means

7/12: Lisa

To Say You Are My World Means

July 11, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

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

A love poem comparing the beauty of love to that of a late summer evening:

To say you are my world means:

That when I look at the sky

I see your face,

And when I pause alone at the window

I feel your hands on my back.

It means:

That the beauty of a garden

Is half in the words I think to you;

That winter is my fear of losing you,

And that spring is the hope I never will.

It means:

That I have taken the risk of wrapping my life

So completely around yours

That the beauty of a late summer evening is

Inseparable from the beauty of our love.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

7/10: Thirty-Five3

7/11: To Say You Are My World Means

Thirty-Five3

July 10, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

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

A number poem comparing a 35-year-old’s yearning for the past to a summer wind:

Thirty-five has reason to remember

How lovely was the life now left behind.

Indeed, though young, no longer in one's youth,

Recalling days awash in golden ruth,

There is much beauty in this summer wind,

Yearning far more simply than September.

For all, time is like music on the mind,

Insidiously bringing one to truth,

Vivid in the vastness of its wonder

Even as one is oneself the singer.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

7/10: Thirty-Five3

Thirty-Two4

July 9, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

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

A number poem comparing a 32-year-old to a summer storm:

Thirty-two is like a summer storm

Howling in the heat of windless days:

Impassioned in pursuit of promised treasure,

Raging through fields planted deep with pleasure,

The flood of life unleashed on well-worn ways.

Yet, of course, such tempests are the norm.

There is for now but little listless leisure

When passion is itself of passions shorn,

One pent-up dream in one’s ambitious gaze.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

Principles of Political Economy

July 8, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated on July 4^th.

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

A set of proverbs on the relationship between politics and economics:

Principles of Political Economy

1. Political and economic activity are motivated primarily by perceived self-interest.

2. Immediate self-interest is more powerful than deferred self-interest unless one believes that the benefits of deferred self-interest will be equitably distributed.

3. Therefore just laws, strictly and equitably applied by a legitimate authority, are required if deferred self-interest is generally to prevail.

4. Productive activity in pursuit of deferred self-interest is the source of wealth.

5. The following conditions stimulate such productive activity: just laws equitably applied; individual rights and freedoms; security of property and person; political and economic stability; education; equitable distribution of opportunity; equitable distribution of wealth; developed infrastructure for production, transportation, and communication; available credit; a stable currency.

6. Neither a pure market economy nor a State-controlled economy is conducive to the development and maintenance of these conditions.

7. The proper balance of State intervention and market control is measured economically but determined politically.

8. While temporary restraints on trade may be beneficial, in general the freer the movement of goods, services, and investment, the greater the stimulation of productive activity, and therefore the greater the wealth.

9. The productive activity of each contributes to the wealth of all. This is as true of nations within the world economy as it is of individuals within a national economy.

10. The globalization of political and economic activity will increase global wealth only to the extent that the conditions listed in (5) above prevail globally.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

7/2: In Politics Corruption Is the Norm

7/3: Now, at Last, the Time of Reckoning

7/4: Then, There Was No Right to Eat

7/5: Politics Brings Out the Worst in Us

7/6: Hubris Is a Quality of People

7/7: The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane

7/8: Principles of Political Economy

The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane

July 7, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated on July 4^th.

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

A poem about the political causes of cancer:

The cancer that killed you was part of you gone quite insane:

The good run amok; death from life bursting awry,

Like a poor paranoid on a bell tower sniping away,

Killing the order that gives all the colony life.

Nature, of course, has madness built into its music,

Disturbing its peace with the agony all artists crave.

Perhaps that's what killed you: the one-in-so-many malfunctions

That chaos requires to shatter the oneness of light.

But chaos is aided in our time by greed in abundance:

Greed like a cancer destroying our colony Earth;

Greed that we eat, drink, and breathe, in our dreams, in our language;

Greed in the nuclei of our dwindling faiths.

What killed you, my loved one, is blended in recycled plastic

Spewing its toxins in micrograms into the sky.

Your life was a goat on the altar of modern convenience,

Bearing the sins of us all towards that merciless god.

We live in a world whose rulers are partners with death;

For whom cancer must be a number that balances out.

You were just perhaps the unlucky percent to be traded

For progress towards some CEO's end-of-year bottom line.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

7/2: In Politics Corruption Is the Norm

7/3: Now, at Last, the Time of Reckoning

7/4: Then, There Was No Right to Eat

7/5: Politics Brings Out the Worst in Us

7/6: Hubris Is a Quality of People

7/7: The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane

Hubris Is a Quality of People

July 6, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated on July 4^th.

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

A political poem warning of rulers afflicted by hubris, or excessive pride:

Hubris is a quality of people

Under the influence of being right.

Beware of power wielded in a cause

Restrained by nothing more than higher laws,

Intent on doing good through measured might.

So do righteous rulers' reigns turn lethal.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

7/2: In Politics Corruption Is the Norm

7/3: Now, at Last, the Time of Reckoning

7/4: Then, There Was No Right to Eat

7/5: Politics Brings Out the Worst in Us

7/6: Hubris Is a Quality of People