Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

September 3, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is labor in honor of Labor Day, which is celebrated today, September 3^rd.

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A Labor Day poem about the dual necessity of labor:

Labor is a blessing and a curse,

As one must work to live and live to work.

Better jobs to get up for or worse,

On the whole, with none you'd go berserk.

Remember, then, that dignity requires

Doing, working, laboring -- a role

As giver, as attendant to desires

You recognize within some common soul.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/3: Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

No More Favors, Please

September 2, 2018

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

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A number poem about a nineteen year old tired of favors loaded with expectations:

No more favors, please!

I'm already choked with people,

Nice people, sweetly moved,

Expecting themselves in the mirror.

Time to look at your watches,

Ease yourselves into lounges,

Enjoy the quiet of taking,

No more intrusive than trees.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

8/28: Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror

8/29: Fie on These Earthlings

8/30: Sixteen

8/31: Seventeen

9/1: Eighteen

9/2: No More Favors, Please

Eighteen

September 1, 2018

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

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

A number poem about eighteen being the borderline between child and adult:

Eighteen is a windswept borderline:

In a moment, gates forever closed.

Gulf of dreams behind the vanished child,

Halfway round the corner of her smile.

The change flaps in the breeze, but in a while

Each motion turns to dance, each gesture wild

Eventually is placed, positioned, posed:

No leaping for sheer joy but by design.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

8/28: Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror

8/29: Fie on These Earthlings

8/30: Sixteen

8/31: Seventeen

9/1: Eighteen

Seventeen

August 31, 2018

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

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

A number poem about the white-hot molten selves of seventeen year olds:

Seventeen pounds heavy in the bass

Exactly ten feet from the danger sign.

Vandals had less chaos-lust than these

Ecstatic children of our mores and malls.

Now they tumble, burning, molten steel

To their molds like white-hot waterfalls,

Empty, plunging hearts too sheer to freeze

Each time the lights go on, the worlds align,

No wall of sound across one's ravaged face.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

8/28: Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror

8/29: Fie on These Earthlings

8/30: Sixteen

8/31: Seventeen

Sixteen

August 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A nostalgic number poem about a sixteen year old from her parent’s point of view:

Sixteen is intent on being lovely,

Immersed in the sweet rivers of her day,

X-ing out the chubby childhood ways

That I must cherish now in memory only.

Even as time steals the time away,

Each moment is a gift I treasure dearly,

Nor would I for my love the time delay.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

8/28: Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror

8/29: Fie on These Earthlings

8/30: Sixteen

Fie on These Earthlings

August 29, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem for a fifteen year old who looks down on adults:

Fie on these earthlings, who think equal

Is the same! Illogical. I'm

Fifteen, will never be their dreams,

Though they paint me into nightmares.

Eat a whole stackpack and die! Even

E.T. would think twice about home!

No! I'm equal--but not at all the same!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

8/28: Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror

8/29: Fie on These Earthlings

Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror

August 28, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem with advice for a fourteen year old.

Fashion for yourself a perfect mirror

On which to gaze when you are quite alone.

Undertake to view yourself completely,

Resisting being more than passive eyes.

There is serenity in merely seeing,

Even when the object is your own,

Even when you notice pride or loathing,

Not avoiding anything but lies.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Teenagers

8/27: Thirteen

8/28: Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror