Seymour

February 2, 2019

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

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A name poem for Seymour, who is devoted to seeking justice:

Seymour sees more than most can imagine.

Empathy rules his oft-hearkening heart.

Yearning for justice can open one's eyes

More often to pain than to panderer's lies.

Oceans are willing but rarely to part.

Undismayed, Seymour knows what of truth a pure passion

Running like fire through rock can impart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

1/29: Alistair

1/30: Nathan

1/31: Jayaur

2/1: Ethan2

2/2: Seymour

Ethan2

February 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for Ethan, for whom the speaker has an unrequited love:

Ethan is the sun that lights my moon.

There is only darkness till he shines.

Hope must wait till time our love aligns

And I reflect his heart into the gloom,

Night's sun sailing through its silver noon.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

1/29: Alistair

1/30: Nathan

1/31: Jayaur

2/1: Ethan2

Jayaur

January 31, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for Jayaur, who has performed one heroic deed:

Jayaur is the hero of the hour,

A man whose courage equaled the event.

Yet he knows the moment soon will sour

As his sweet celebrity is spent.

Underneath the fame so briefly won

Remains for good the good that he has done.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

1/29: Alistair

1/30: Nathan

1/31: Jayaur

Nathan

January 30, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for Nathan, a sad child who is very much beloved:

Nathan is a child much beloved

Although too often he seems very sad.

Through all the many things we'll never know,

Hope and love can make a child grow

As tall and green as oak in sunshine clad.

Nor should one's heart from patient faith be moved.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

1/29: Alistair

1/30: Nathan

Alistair

January 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for Alistair, a man who likes to show off how much he knows:

Alistair exudes sophistication,

Leaning on his learning as though lame.

Intelligence in him is like a curtain,

Shutting off the windows to his heart.

There is with him no chance for conversation,

As though each point were counted in some game.

Intent on winning, prepped and always certain,

Rest assured he'll flaunt his range and art.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

1/29: Alistair

Riley

January 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for Riley, a boy who is popular with the girls:

Riley is a boy with auburn hair,

Immensely popular with all the girls.

Love comes easily to one whose curls

Entice the hearts that harbor dreams to spare.

Yet Riley will not soon his young heart share.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Men

1/28: Riley

Melba

January 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is nationality and race in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 21.

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

A name poem for a multicultural woman:

Melba mixes cultures like bright colors,

Each of which the dappled whole enhances.

Lavish in her love of life, she dances,

Blessed in years, to the tunes of many others,

A wealth of music as the world advances.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Nationality and Race

1/21: Moses Never Reached the Promised Land

1/22: Love’s a Stream That Knows No Borders

1/23: Love Has Obstacles Enough, They Say

1/24: I’m Married to This Muslim Arab

1/25: Mugabe and Mandela

1/26: Beneath the Canopy of Moon and Stars

1/27: Melba