I Want to Help You Fly

September 29, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the paradox of wanting what’s best for a lover, but not if it means losing him or her.

I want to help you fly,

But not away from me.

I want what's best for you,

But fear what that might be.

There is no paradox

More difficult than this:

That I would die for you,

Yet not give up your kiss.

So do not mind my madness;

Fly bravely, if you must:

I'll watch you, happy in your joy,

And teach my heart to trust.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

9/24: I Don’t Know How We Get into These Fights

9/25: My Love for You Is Something I’m Afraid of

9/26: I Love You & Etc.

9/27: I Love You with All I Am

9/28: I Promise You My Innocence

9/29: I Want to Help You Fly

I Promise You My Innocence

September 28, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem promising fulfillment:

I promise you my innocence

When fire fills the sky,

When the sun erupts in ecstasy

And fading furies die.

I want to fill your life with love,

So full you want to cry,

And make myself your land and sea,

Your mirror and your eye.

I lay my happiness upon

The pillow of your sigh;

Your joy, your love, your need of me

Is where my angels lie.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

9/24: I Don’t Know How We Get into These Fights

9/25: My Love for You Is Something I’m Afraid of

9/26: I Love You & Etc.

9/27: I Love You with All I Am

9/28: I Promise You My Innocence

I Love You with All I Am

September 27, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the total joining of two people through love:

I love you with all I am

And all I'll ever be.

You are my moon, my sun and stars,

My earth, my sky, my sea.

My love for you goes down and down

Beneath both life and death,

So deep it must remain when I

Have drawn my last faint breath.

Holding you for months and years

Will make Time disappear,

Will make your lips my lips, your face

My face, your tear my tear;

Will make us one strange personage

All intertwined in bliss,

Not man or woman, live or dead--

Just nothing--but a kiss!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

9/24: I Don’t Know How We Get into These Fights

9/25: My Love for You Is Something I’m Afraid of

9/26: I Love You & Etc.

9/27: I Love You with All I Am

I Love You & Etc.

September 26, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A humorous love poem full of clichés:

I love you & etc.

As I have never loved.

You are the one, of all so far,

That I'm most certain of.

I'll do anything, etc.,

To keep your cool green eyes,

And make you smile that golden smile,

And still your lonely sighs.

You're the greatest & etc.

Guy I've ever met.

Right now you are my heart and soul,

Etcetera & etcet.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

9/24: I Don’t Know How We Get into These Fights

9/25: My Love for You Is Something I’m Afraid of

9/26: I Love You & Etc.

My Love for You Is Something I'm Afraid of

September 25, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem from a teenager to an adult lover:

My love for you is something I'm afraid of.

You're all grown up, and I am still a kid.

You tell me that you love me. I believe it.

But something in me says this isn't good.

You touch me and I melt into your yearning.

You kiss me and I never want to stop.

I dream of you whenever I'm not with you.

And yet I cannot trust you - not just yet.

Yes, love and trust must always go together,

And it's a sign of trouble when they don't.

You are a man, and I not yet a woman,

Too young to know exactly what I want.

You say you'll wait for me, which makes me happy,

As I, too, wait for me to find my way.

Years are sunlit space for me to grow in

Until we can love boldly, eye-to-eye.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

9/24: I Don’t Know How We Get into These Fights

9/25: My Love for You Is Something I’m Afraid of

I Don't Know How We Get into These Fights

September 24, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An “I’m sorry” love poem apologizing for fighting:

I don't know how we get into these fights.

After them I look back at the ashes

More shocked than hurt, as when a light plane crashes,

Slanting numb through strange, unearthly lights.

Oh, how I wish I could get off that plane

Rushing to its rendezvous with tears!

Rage is but a mask for my shy fears.

Yet I would die before I caused you pain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

9/24: I Don’t Know How We Get into These Fights

Proverbs on Good and Evil

September 23, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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

A set of proverbs on good and evil:

PROVERBS ON GOOD AND EVIL

1. Good and evil are like unstable elements that bond immediately to form a single molecule. A jolt of electricity, however, can temporarily separate them again.

2. The innocent are guilty of not knowing they are guilty, whereas the guilty are innocent of not knowing they are guilty.

3. The most common justification for evil is cynicism. The second most common justification for evil is idealism. However, idealism tends to justify the greater evil.

4. One often perceives someone as evil because one perceives oneself as good. This error is the cause of a great deal of confusion and suffering.

5. The reward for goodness is self-satisfaction, wherein also lies great danger.

6. How, then, is one to know good from evil? That which springs from love is good. That which springs from greed, lust, or hatred is evil. That which is beautiful is good. That which is ugly is evil. That which you yourself would want from another is good. That which you yourself would not want from another is evil.

7. There are those who cast aside all restraints and are willingly evil. There are those who live perpetually restrained and become self-righteous. There are those who are aware of the evil in their hearts, words, and acts, yet are able to love themselves and others.

8. Evil must sometimes be met with violence, but the only antidote is love.

9. Thus to be good one must love those who are evil, among whom one must include oneself. That is, to be good one must know one is evil, both at war and at peace with oneself.

10. In the war between good and evil, the major battleground is in the hearts of children, and the weapons are the lives of adults.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

9/17: Cynicism Comes from Self-Disgust

9/18: You Wrap Your Mind Around the Consequence

9/19: Year After Year, You Promise to Atone

9/20: Proverbs on Ideological Idealism

9/21: The Problem Isn’t Simply One of Rules

9/22: Gretchen

9/23: Proverbs on Good and Evil