To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope

July 29, 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 significance of daydreams:

To daydream is to stir the pot of hope.

What we most want is up upon a stage,

Eliciting a self-vicarious pleasure.

Nor should we deprecate such homespun treasure,

The source of much delight at any age.

Years pass, yet dreams with dreamers still elope.

Fear not to dream, for dreams are not mere leisure:

Imagination gives one room to cope,

Vivid in its scenes of love and rage

Even as it makes one's world to measure.

© 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

7/27: Adele

7/28: To Create a World Requires Passion

7/29: To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope

To Create a World Requires Passion

July 28, 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 joy and pain involved in writing fiction:

To create a world requires passion.

Hollow hours must be filled with beauty.

Immersed in make believe, one sojourns there,

Reduced to ecstasy and then despair,

Then breaks off for some unurgent duty

Yet can’t put down a phrase one would refashion.

One feels writ small the joy of the Creation,

Nor would one trade it for a huckster’s booty,

Even as one lays one’s person bare.

© 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

7/27: Adele

7/28: To Create a World Requires Passion

Adele

July 27, 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 attempts through dreams to shape her fate:

Adele removes the writing on the wall,

Determined to replace it with her own.

Even though no fate may heed her scrawl,

Like a god she wills what will befall,

Ever staking claim to the unknown.

© 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

7/27: Adele

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