Zechariah

September 15, 2018

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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 name poem for a prophet of reason:

Zechariah is consumed by longing

Even as he cherishes his state.

Choosing reason rather than belonging,

He feels the pathos of his complex fate.

A modern prophet must be only human,

Relinquishing the myths of god and tribe.

In visions passionate, he must illumine

A glory that needs neither faith nor bribe,

Having a domain he can describe.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

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

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

9/13: Faith

9/14: Jordyn

9/15: Zechariah

Jordyn

September 14, 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 name poem for someone who describes the indescribable:

Jordyn speaks in parables,

Opening a veil,

Rendering beatitude

Dressed up as a tale,

Yielding what one cannot see

Now radiant, but in braille.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

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

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

9/13: Faith

9/14: Jordyn

Faith

September 13, 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 name poem for a woman named Faith who has no faith:

Faith finds within her heart a windy sea,

A restless place untenanted by peace,

In which there's neither passion nor release,

The changeless void whose changes never cease,

Having wrought this unwilled will to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

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

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

9/13: Faith

Agostino

September 12, 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 name poem for a Christian man who lives by his faith.

Agostino has been touched by grace,

Giving him the gifts of faith and love.

Of him it can be said he lives in joy,

Singing thanks and praise beneath each breath.

To see him is to be in his embrace.

In him there is a love no loss can move,

Nor passion still, nor evidence destroy,

Only peace along the edge of death.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

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

9/11: Aisha

9/12: Agostino

Aisha

September 11, 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 name poem for a Muslim woman who lives by her faith:

Aisha is a model Muslim woman:

Intelligent, loving, faithful, modest, kind;

Serving selflessly the words of Islam,

Having held them long in heart and mind;

A soul that seeks, yet knows what it will find.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Faith

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

9/11: Aisha

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

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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 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