Poem of the Week

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

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

2/17: How Little in Me Is Not Touched by You

Friday, February 15, 2019

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.

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

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.

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

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

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

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.

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

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!

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day