Heaven Isn't Easy

August 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A fifth anniversary poem about the hard work involved in love’s labor:

Heaven isn’t easy. God knows it takes

A lot of work to build a house of love.

Praised be those devoted to love’s labor,

Passing love on to their generations,

Yielding pleasure in return for joy.

For love’s labor’s never lost, but makes

It easier for happiness to prove

Fit for those who would return the favor,

Trading fantasy for brick till the relation

Has roof and walls no wild wind would destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/heave8.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

7/30: Happy Sixth Anniversary4

7/31: Happy Fourteenth Anniversary

8/1: Happy Ninth Anniversary2

8/2: Heaven Isn’t Easy

Happy Ninth Anniversary2

August 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A ninth anniversary poem about passion and love:

Happy ninth anniversary!

A moment in the wind,

Pausing to pay tribute to

Passion’s proper end:

Yielding lifelong love.

No lustful seeker could foresee,

If lust from love unwind,

Not able to enjoy a view

That lights life from behind,

How lovely love would prove!

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ86.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

7/30: Happy Sixth Anniversary4

7/31: Happy Fourteenth Anniversary

8/1: Happy Ninth Anniversary2

Happy Fourteenth Anniversary

July 31, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A fourteenth anniversary poem about the view forward and back from that day:

Happy fourteenth anniversary!

A saddle on the mountain of your lives.

Pause a moment: The landscape that you see

Peacefully unfolds before your eyes.

Years stretch out like fields beneath blue skies.

For you, the way has turned out steep, but still

On the whole both beautiful and kind,

Ultimately wedded to your will,

Resistant though it might have been at times,

The sort of life which one is blessed to climb.

Every day might equally be such,

Embracing past and future in one view.

Nor would in that case this day mean as much:

The heart could, like an actor, use a cue,

Having lifelong feelings to renew.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ85.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

7/30: Happy Sixth Anniversary4

7/31: Happy Fourteenth Anniversary

Happy Sixth Anniversary4

July 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A sixth anniversary poem about moving from a youthful to a more mature love:

Happy sixth anniversary!

A moment in the sun!

Pleased to praise the passing years,

Pleased to mark each one.

Yet as one yields one's youth to time,

Singing as one goes,

In time one's love accumulates,

X-ing out the woes

That come with doubt and loneliness,

Here where none need pose.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ84.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries

7/30: Happy Sixth Anniversary4

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

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/todayd.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

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

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/tocrea.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

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

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/adele.html For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

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