O Lord, Our Hope and Our Redeemer

September 10, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is faith, in honor of both the Jewish and Islamic New Years.

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

A prayer for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year:

O Lord, our hope and our redeemer,

Shine Your countenance upon us.

Make us this year worthy of Your love.

Empty us upon the thirsty sand

So that You may fill us

With Your goodness and Your grace.

Strengthen our will to do right,

And make us loving and kind.

Make us the friend of the sparrow

And the refuge of the hawk.

Grant us the gift of knowing

That You are our song and our light.

Help us to sing Your sweet music

And nurture our spark of Your glory.

O Lord, our hope and our redeemer,

Help us to serve You with every breath.

Make us the blade of Your healing scalpel.

Make us the balm You apply to each wound.

Make us a blessing to all we encounter.

And then, O Lord, only then

Grant us one more year of joy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

9/10: O Lord, Our Hope and Our Redeemer

Long May You Labor at Something You Love

September 9, 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 on September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem about loving what you do:

Long may you labor at something you love,

Awakening daily to passion and pleasure,

Blessed to find joy both in work and in leisure,

Obliged to move mountains you most want to move.

Remember that work is defined by the heart,

Delightful or not as the laborer chooses.

All life is a game that one wins or one loses,

Yielding what one would with will and with art.

© 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

9/6: Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

9/7: Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

9/8: Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living

9/9: Long May You Labor at Something You Love

Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living

September 8, 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 on September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem about the benefits of guaranteed work over welfare:

Let there be a right to earn a living!

All who wish to work should have the chance.

Bad times come and go with circumstance:

Ought we then be hiring or just giving?

Rest assured, there's always much to do:

Demand's determined more by funds than need.

All we give away is wealth we bleed,

Yet work for wages would that wealth renew.

© 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

9/6: Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

9/7: Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

9/8: Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living

Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

September 7, 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 on September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem about the political impossibility of a market price for labor:

Let the market set the price of labor!

And who would want to vote for such a life?

Because we live in a democracy,

Our policies are shaped by peaceful strife,

Rewarding those who fight for what they favor.

Despite the logic, what fool would agree,

Alerted to his interest, to turn over,

Yielding neck to economic knife?

© 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

9/6: Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

9/7: Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

September 6, 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 on September 3^rd.

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

A Labor Day poem advocating for a living wage:

Let every worker earn a living wage,

And every family have enough to eat.

Better bellies full of bread than rage.

One finds no better peacemaker than wheat.

Really? Can we get around inflation?

Demand increases; what about supply?

Affluence reduces population.

Yet some prefer to see poor people die.

© 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

9/6: Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

Labor Is the Burden of Our Being

September 5, 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 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