Thank You's Howl like Wind Across the Dead

November 5, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Veterans Day, which is celebrated on November 11^th.

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A Veteran’s Day poem of thanks to the dead, who can no longer hear:

Thank you's howl like wind across the dead,

Howl dark and cold through trees that cannot speak,

As none below has ears for what we say,

Nor can a smile crease a vanished cheek.

Killing lays all souls on one small bed.

Yet we must thank you for ourselves, to seek

One moment of forgiveness on our way,

Unloosing tears we weep but cannot shed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Veterans Day

11/5: Thank You’s Howl like Wind Across the Dead

Have a Little Hell to Salt Your Heaven

November 4, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which is celebrated on Oct. 31.

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

A Halloween poem about the need to include some horror in one’s life:

Have a little Hell to salt your Heaven,

A dash of horror in your well-whipped cream.

Love and joy are not all you’ve been given.

Let some unsavory nightmare spice your dream!

Open up your long-sealed inner dungeon

Wherein you keep the monsters of your heart.

Enjoy one midnight just a rare smoked smidgeon,

Exquisite taste of what you are, in part,

Night shades for your culinary art!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

11/1: Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

11/2: Horror Is a Kind of Play

11/3: Hollow, Hollow Halloween

11/4: Have a Little Hell to Salt Your Heaven

Hollow, Hollow Halloween

November 3, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which is celebrated on Oct. 31.

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

A Halloween poem about the plight of lost souls:

Hollow, hollow Halloween,

All hollow at the bone

Like a loud but silent scream

Long entombed in stone.

O hollow, hard, unhallowed souls

Wandering the night:

Ever weep on daylight’s shoals

Even as the matin tolls,

Never reaching light.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

11/1: Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

11/2: Horror Is a Kind of Play

11/3: Hollow, Hollow Halloween

Horror Is a Kind of Play

November 2, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which is celebrated on Oct. 31.

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

A Halloween poem about the real-life function of Halloween horror:

Horror is a kind of play,

A need to undergo

Life along the borderline,

Lest death be just a name.

On Halloween we dream away

What wailing we well know,

Enchanted by the danger sign

Each savors up and down the spine,

Near haunts that are no game.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

11/1: Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

11/2: Horror Is a Kind of Play

Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

November 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which was celebrated yesterday, Oct. 31.

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

A Halloween poem about how much scary creatures delight in scaring people:

Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance:

Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew,

Leaping into darkness with delight,

Lusting for the ecstasy of fright,

Open to the charm of horrors new.

Well may you start your screaming in advance,

Even as you give a ghoul a chance,

Each creepy creature craving to say, "Boo!",

Near heaven in its netherworld of night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

11/1: Hobgoblins Know the Proper Way to Dance

Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

October 31, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which is celebrated today, Oct. 31.

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

A Halloween poem about the realities behind the fantasies of horror.

Have a look in the mirror of your dreams:

All the horrors that you see are real.

Lest you think the world is as it seems,

Let your skin crawl, your frozen blood congeal.

Of fear and fantasy now take your fill.

Wells of sorrow lie beneath your feet.

Each sun-drenched field you mercilessly till

Endures to see your ultimate defeat.

Now let yourself let go your last conceit.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween

10/31: Have a Look in the Mirror of Your Dreams

Happy, Happy Halloween

October 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which will be celebrated tomorrow, Oct. 31.

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

A Halloween poem that contrasts the pleasures of the living with the suffering of ghosts:

Happy, Happy Halloween!

A funhouse till tomorrow!

Let the living squirm and scream!

Leave the dead to sorrow.

Only ghosts endure such pain,

Well beyond their age,

Each undone again, again,

Each condemned to rage.

Nor can they turn the page.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/29: Brooms Inspire Restless Witches

10/30: Happy, Happy Halloween