Seven Years! That's Not So Long

August 13, 2018

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

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A seventh birthday poem:

Seven years! That’s not so long.

Just the right time for a song.

A happy Happy Birthday song!

If you like it, sing along!

Seven years! Imagine that!

Forty-nine, if you’re a cat.

Good thing that you’re not a cat!

You’d be middle-aged! Imagine that!

Seven years! A long, long time!

But nowhere near as long as mine!

Each year is precious. I like mine,

Grateful for the gift of time.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/13: Seven Years! That’s Not So Long

Julie

August 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 miscarriage, stillbirth, and death in early childhood.

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

A name poem for a child who lived almost to adolescence:

Julie died sometime in her mid-morning,

Unable to take in her afternoon.

Life's an equal gift from dawn to evening,

Infinite in happiness and grieving,

Even when the night falls far too soon.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

8/6: Aryanna

8/7: To a Stillborn Sister

8/8: I Cannot Help but Be What I Would Not

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

8/11: Sarah2

8/12: Julie

Sarah2

August 11, 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 about the richness of even a very short life:

Sarah lived a rich, full life

Although she died in infancy,

Reminding us that all of us

Are blessed with life no more than she,

Having touched eternity.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

8/6: Aryanna

8/7: To a Stillborn Sister

8/8: I Cannot Help but Be What I Would Not

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

8/11: Sarah2

I Have One Living Son

August 10, 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 poem about three children who died in infancy:

I have one living son, Justin,

And two daughters: Letisha and Anastasia.

And three dead sons, my first sons,

Who died because they were too small.

I love them as much as I do the others.

They lived their entire lives within me,

All but a few short, sickly days.

And now I mourn them as I do my other loved ones passed.

Do not think that time together

Has anything to do with grief.

Flesh of my flesh, they are my children.

I think of them often, as I do my parents,

As I would any souls I have loved.

The dead whom we love are like trees on a riverbank:

The river flows by, the trees remain.

Three lovely trees, as tall and thick as any of the others.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

8/6: Aryanna

8/7: To a Stillborn Sister

8/8: I Cannot Help but Be What I Would Not

8/9: Caitlin

8/10: I Have One Living Son

Caitlin

August 9, 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 child who died within the womb:

Caitlin lived a long and happy life,

All within the palace of my womb.

If she could not joy to be a wife,

There were some bright colors on her loom.

Let those who mourn remember that she died

In sweet communion with my soul inside,

Nor did she lack for love from bliss to tomb.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

8/6: Aryanna

8/7: To a Stillborn Sister

8/8: I Cannot Help but Be What I Would Not

8/9: Caitlin

I Cannot Help but Be What I Would Not

August 8, 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 .

An angry poem from a mother who miscarried to a father who could not be there:

I cannot help but be what I would not:

A river raging reckless through our love;

But anger is the closest thing I've got

To what far more aggrieved must in me move.

I know quite well that I'm not being fair:

You could not help but be untimely gone.

But unlike you, I could not be but there

To feel our child go dead within my womb.

How you are like the wind, and I the earth

That bears the seed you scatter on your way!

Mine alone the brutal joys of birth;

Yours alone the choice to go or stay.

Despite our love, despite your sympathy,

I know that I in this alone must be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

8/6: Aryanna

8/7: To a Stillborn Sister

8/8: I Cannot Help but Be What I Would Not

To a Stillborn Sister

August 7, 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 love poem to a stillborn sister:

How do you love a person

Who never got to be,

Or try again to see a face

You never got to see?

How do you mourn the death of one

Who never got to live,

When there's nothing to feel good about

And nothing to forgive?

I love you, little sister.

You're a person of the wind,

Free to be the memory

Of all that might have been.

I love you, little sister,

My companion of the night,

Wandering through my lonely hours,

Beautiful and bright.

What does it mean to die before

You ever can be born,

To live the lovely night of life

And never see the dawn?

Ah! My little sister,

You lived like anyone!

Life's a burst of joy and pain,

And then, like yours, it's done.

I love you, little sister,

Just as if you'd lived for years.

No more, no less, I think of you,

The angel of my tears.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

8/6: Aryanna

8/7: To a Stillborn Sister