Labor Is the Burden of Our Being

September 5, 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 was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem about the burden and the blessing of labor:

Labor is the burden of our being,

A weight that weds us firmly to the earth,

Blessed servitude that serves a common meaning

On which each may erect a sense of worth.

Remember, then, the beauty of a calling

Demanding both integrity and skill:

A dancer in the drifts of early morning,

Yet traveling towards sunset through sheer will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/3: Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

9/4: Labor Is Identity

9/5: Labor Is the Burden of Our Being

Labor Is Identity

September 4, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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 was celebrated yesterday, September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem about the need to choose an ethical career:

Labor is identity

As one is what one does.

Beware the work that will not sculpt

One into what one would.

Remember well the bunko bees,

Defined by work that is

Awash in ugliness and guilt,

Yielding little good.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/3: Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

9/4: Labor Is Identity

Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

September 3, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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 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