You See the Beauty of Your Years

August 16, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday poem for a parent wishing him or her a bit of silent grace:

You see the beauty of your years,

I hope. With all your children's love,

This day must bring you happy tears

And tranquil thoughts that joyful prove.

I hope, with all your children's love,

There is a refuge all your own,

And tranquil thoughts that joyful prove

Beyond the family you call home.

There is a refuge all your own

Amid the crowds of time and place,

Beyond the family you call home,

Where you are in the grip of grace.

Amid the crowds of time and place,

This day must bring you happy tears.

Where you are in the grip of grace,

You see the beauty of your years.

© 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/yousee.html. For more birthday poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/birthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/13: Seven Years! That’s Not So Long

8/14: Aileen

8/15: Happy Birthday to My Cyber Friend

8/16: You See the Beauty of Your Years

Happy Birthday to My Cyber Friend

August 15, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday poem for an Internet friend:

Happy birthday to my cyber friend!

As words must be our medium, a poem,

Perhaps, may best my birthday wishes send,

Poems being inner portraits out on loan.

Yet I would be a landscape in the mountains,

Bright sun battering an empty sky,

Immense rock faces answering all questions,

Resolving all in what instead of why.

To you instead I send a humble hope

Hedged with roses swaying in the wind,

Diminutive in eloquence and scope,

A wish for one day beautiful and kind,

Yet with all my heart and wistful mind.

© 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/happ17.html. For more birthday poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/birthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/13: Seven Years! That’s Not So Long

8/14: Aileen

8/15: Happy Birthday to My Cyber Friend

Aileen

August 14, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for an eightieth birthday:

Aileen has reached the ripe old age of eighty!

In her there's been much music, song, and dance.

Love like wind on sand designed her life,

Early on a mother and a wife.

Even in late years she's had romance.

Nor has she toiled for less than love and beauty.

© 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/aileen.html. For more birthday poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/birthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/13: Seven Years! That’s Not So Long

8/14: Aileen

Seven Years! That's Not So Long

August 13, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

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

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/7year2.html. For more birthday poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/birthdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Birthdays

8/13: Seven Years! That’s Not So Long

Julie

August 12, 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 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

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/julie.html. For more poems about death, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

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

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/sarah2.html. For more poems about death, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

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

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/ihave1.html. For more poems about death, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

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