Aryanna

August 6, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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

A name poem for a stillborn child:

Aryanna died when she was born,

Reminding us how briefly we are here.

Years, like minutes, cannot last for long;

A note is no less precious than a song,

Nor for her early death was she less dear.

Now what we can do for her is mourn,

As she is salient only to our tears.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Death in Early Childhood

8/6: Aryanna

Happiness Has Been Your Gift to Me

August 5, 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 .

An anniversary poem about the love that lasts beneath the years:

Happiness has been your gift to me

All these years of melody and pain,

Pleasure, hardship, wanton rhapsody,

Pure delight and hard, wind-driven rain.

Years do not add up to love and glory:

All things rest on non-things far more true.

No note is so sustained throughout our story;

Nothing but your love, and mine for you.

In our lives must always be confusion:

Very little lost in Time is clear.

Even so, the whirlwind's an illusion

Regarding the few things we hold most dear.

So you have chosen me, and in that choice

Alone I find my refuge and my voice.

Reality is made by our own will:

You made my world and hold me in it still.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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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

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

8/4: Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

8/5: Happiness Has Been Your Gift to Me

Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

August 4, 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 thirty-eighth anniversary poem about love and time:

Time, in time, eventually is timeless,

Having flattened out into a sea.

In moments of sufficient mass is oneness,

Reduced to what might seem eternity.

There is in love a similar dynamic

Yielding to the outpourings of years,

Endless end, redemption oceanic,

Infinite home for memories and tears.

Give, then, due thanks for love that lasts forever,

However long that is, a depthless deep

That rests beneath the restless waves of ever,

Happily the one thing you may keep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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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

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

8/4: Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless

Happy Second Anniversary

August 3, 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 second anniversary poem about how a couple changes slowly together:

Happy second anniversary!

As time wears on, the newness wears away;

Passion turns to pleasurable play;

Preference becomes necessity.

Years are markers towards a transformation

Slow and unobtrusive as a tide

Elevating vessels side by side,

Changing both, but ever in relation.

On this, your second, then, may you rejoice,

Nestled in the chamber of your choice,

Destined by your love for celebration.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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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

8/3: Happy Second Anniversary

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

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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

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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

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

7/30: Happy Sixth Anniversary4

7/31: Happy Fourteenth Anniversary