Hope Is a Breeze Across an Open Field

February 16, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which was celebrated on February 14.

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

A Valentine’s Day poem about the need for freedom in love:

Hope is a breeze across an open field.

Anger comes from pounding on a door,

Positive one wants the door to yield.

Perhaps from this one senses something more.

Yearning is a song to wake the dead.

Very few can yearn for what is theirs.

Although love waits half-naked on the bed,

Life can seem a maze of doors and stairs.

Each soul pursues the prey of its desire,

Not knowing that to have must mean to kill.

There is no deed that documents love's fire;

In lovers' hearts, one comes and goes at will.

Need is a wind that strips the landscape bare;

Eventually one turns, and love is there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/11: Each Day Your Smile Becomes My Morning Star

2/12: Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose

2/13: Happy Valentine, My Love

2/14: Here Among the Lovers I Wait Willing

2/15: Here There Are Not Tears Enough to Tell You

2/16: Hope Is a Breeze Across an Open Field

Here There Are Not Tears Enough to Tell You

February 15, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which was celebrated yesterday, February 14.

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

A Valentine’s Day poem about the difficulty of declaring one’s love:

Here there are not tears enough to tell you

All the love I have within my heart,

Plainly to proclaim my love before you,

Put with simple grace and little art.

Yet I must try, for love ought not be hidden,

Veiled for fear of nakedness if known,

Afraid to enter silences unbidden

Lest it should have to cross the stage alone.

Even so, love needs the wings of words:

No truth is not transfigured by expression.

The heart of love, like those of captured birds,

Interred too long succumbs to its depression.

Nor are words enough, for love is more

Elusive than a verbal net can hold,

Singing like a sea across my shore,

Dancing back, white fold on endless fold.

All I am and have I give to you,

Yet love needs more, and more I cannot do.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/11: Each Day Your Smile Becomes My Morning Star

2/12: Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose

2/13: Happy Valentine, My Love

2/14: Here Among the Lovers I Wait Willing

2/15: Here There Are Not Tears Enough to Tell You

Here Among the Lovers I Wait Willing

February 14, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated today, February 14.

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

A poem about lovers who must be apart on Valentine’s Day:

Here among the lovers I wait willing,

Alone because I cannot be with you,

Pensive in the press of people filling

Promenades with passions old and new.

Yet I am happy in my melancholy,

Vested in a love that like the night

Arrays itself in dreams that clothe me wholly,

Leaving me contented till the light.

Even were I with you, we would wander

Near the things that still are yet to be,

Taking pleasure in that prescient wonder

In which we find the purest ecstasy.

Nor would our love be greater not apart,

Each with each together in the heart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/11: Each Day Your Smile Becomes My Morning Star

2/12: Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose

2/13: Happy Valentine, My Love

2/14: Here Among the Lovers I Wait Willing

Happy Valentine, My Love

February 13, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated tomorrow, February 14.

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

A Valentine’s Day poem to a loved one:

Happy Valentine, my love!

All my love is yours.

Praised be love that brings us home,

Pleased to claim these shores.

Yearnings here find harborage;

Vanities, sly smiles.

All that righteous anger rends,

Love here reconciles.

Even in the darkness where

No bitterness finds rest,

Thoughts of you are like a dawn,

Inducing happiness.

Nor would I have so light a heart

Except that I am blessed!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/11: Each Day Your Smile Becomes My Morning Star

2/12: Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose

2/13: Happy Valentine, My Love

Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose

February 12, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14.

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

A Valentine’s Day poem about the need for love to overcome life’s pain:

Happiness is not a tended rose

Amid the prescient beauty of a garden:

Perhaps one senses soon some gate may close;

Perhaps one senses soon the earth will harden.

Years come and go like waves upon a shore,

Violent or peaceful with the wind.

After one has given up on more,

Love waits within the heart, its faith undimmed.

Even in a passage void of light,

Nether windings black with rage and grief,

There are waters sweet with lost delight

In which one finds a long longed-for relief.

No happiness can overcome life's pain

Except one love, and love give life again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/11: Each Day Your Smile Becomes My Morning Star

2/12: Happiness Is Not a Tended Rose

Each Day Your Smile Becomes My Morning Star

February 11, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14.

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

A Valentine’s Day poem to a teacher:

Each day your smile becomes my morning star.

I look at you and then my feelings shine.

From you I learn far more than words or numbers:

You're the book that someday will be mine.

You're the one whose love my love of learning

Will one day trace in its ancestral line.

For all the ways you help me grow towards beauty,

I ask you please to be my Valentine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/11: Each Day Your Smile Becomes My Morning Star

Treat Yourself Each Day to Love and Kindness

February 10, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, which began on February 5, and this year is the Year of the Pig.

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

A poem for the Chinese, or Lunar New Year of the Sheep, from the Sheep’s point of view:

Treat yourself each day to love and kindness.

Heaven is a place within the heart.

Each ritual of faith may well seem mindless,

Yet one is only whole when one is part.

Even though I may seem timid, shy,

A worrier for all who might feel pain,

Remember well the well-wrought reason why:

One gives with love what will one's love sustain.

Faith is one's connection to the whole,

The story that makes sense of the event.

How might the self seem separate from the soul

Except through love perceived as permanent?

So must we be filled with love that we

Have just a glimpse of what it means to be,

Embracing freely what we cannot know,

Each suffering what all must undergo,

Patient in the hands of mystery.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Chinese, or Lunar New Year

2/4: The Point Is Just that I Don’t See the Point

2/5: There’s Nothing Really Wrong with Being Last

2/6: There Is No Knowledge – Only Good Opinion

2/7: There May Be Some Who’ve Wondered Why the Rat

2/8: There’s No Secret to Nobility

2/9: They Also Serve Themselves Who Lie in Wait

2/10: Treat Yourself Each Day to Love and Kindness