The Previous Forecasts Are the Current Needs

July 26, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A philosophical poem about the need for fantasy to shape the future:

The previous forecasts are the current needs.

The previous plans are now the policies.

The algorithms of our time and place

Can generate a blueprint of our fates –

Not precisely, but within a range

That in time the outcome will sustain.

Life is shaped by what it cannot be,

The brick and mortar of a fantasy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

7/24: Fortune’s in the Eye of the Beholder

7/25: Five2

7/26: The Previous Forecasts Are the Current Needs

Five2

July 25, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem about the science-based fantasies of a five-year-old boy:

Five is when the zombie spiders roam

In every nook and cranny of your home.

Velociraptors and colossal squid

Explore the dreams where boogeymen once hid.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

7/24: Fortune’s in the Eye of the Beholder

7/25: Five2

Fortune's in the Eye of the Beholder

July 24, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem about how dreams try out future plans:

Fortune's in the eye of the beholder.

Out of all you were comes who you are.

Rejoice, then, in each moment of your being,

The you, you would not trade one moment for.

Years pass, yet the moment grows no older.

 

Nor does the yearning of the heart grow colder.

In dreams one tries out fortunes from afar,
Never reaching quite what one is seeing,

Ever drawn to sail across the bar.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

7/24: Fortune’s in the Eye of the Beholder

Alfredo

July 23, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for someone who fills the empty horizon with fantasies:

Alfredo likes to linger in the doorway,

Looking out towards where Earth curves away.

For him space is a muse, inspiring still,

Reverberating through the empty will,

Even as he dreams of icy Norway

Dancing in the dusk of dying day,

Or Spain, whose hot, dry plains horizons fill.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fantasy and Dream

7/23: Alfredo

There's No Hurricane

July 22, 2018

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

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

A love poem about a vicious, chaotic, ecstatic love:

There's no hurricane

As vicious as my love.

Watch out!

I'll rip off your roof

And scatter your undies all over town.

You'll pay for it

For years.

But you know what?

It'll be worth it!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/16: Once More, with Feeling, Please

7/17: How Can I Persuade You I’m Sincere

7/18: I’m Not Your Parent, nor Are You My Slave

7/19: Love Is a Wind That Drives the Will

7/20: Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy

7/21: Pascal Meunier

7/22: There’s No Hurricane

Pascal Meunier

July 21, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem for a lover named Pascal Meunier:

The first time I saw him,

In love right away!

My beautiful, blue-eyed

Pascal Meunier.

Ah, Pascal Meunier!

What more can I say?

My beautiful, blue-eyed

Pascal Meunier.

He is the sky

To the wind of my will,

Or the ocean of dreams

Just under my sill;

The word for my meaning,

The name for my song,

My soul and my being

I'll love my life long.

Ah, Pascal Meunier!

What more can I say?

My beautiful, blue-eyed

Pascal Meunier.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/16: Once More, with Feeling, Please

7/17: How Can I Persuade You I’m Sincere

7/18: I’m Not Your Parent, nor Are You My Slave

7/19: Love Is a Wind That Drives the Will

7/20: Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy

7/21: Pascal Meunier

Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy

July 20, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the easy naturalness of love:

Loving you is something that comes easy,

Like walking in the sunshine to a song,

Like being in a place where you belong,

Like finding reasons when you know you're ready.

Nor do I care that working days are dreary,

The pay's a pittance and the hours are long.

Knowing that you love me keeps me strong,

The light within that lets me see life clearly.

Why is love the music of our meaning,

The lilt that makes our labor worth our living,

The loveliness no platitude can bear?

In you I have a harvest past all gleaning,

A gift arrested in the act of giving,

A moment of delight that's always there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/16: Once More, with Feeling, Please

7/17: How Can I Persuade You I’m Sincere

7/18: I’m Not Your Parent, nor Are You My Slave

7/19: Love Is a Wind That Drives the Will

7/20: Loving You Is Something That Comes Easy