Your Fear Is Not Surprising

March 4, 2019

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

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A poem to someone who is afraid to love:

Your fear is not surprising.

It's always ended badly:

Fury, betrayals, recriminations.

Then, for days and weeks and months

An agony worse than grief

Because you also feel like such a fool.

Love is like diving or rock climbing:

Spectacular, but your heart sticks in your mouth

Every moment you're there.

There's an ease in not caring,

A looseness in the belly.

Then, as love approaches, a knot tightens like a snake.

Being alone and free is like looking in from outside:

People give and get affection,

Are seized by extraordinary happiness and pain,

Live in prison and in heaven,

Deal with the necessity of working on what must be worked out,

While you watch them as if they were on TV.

Life is full of love and difficulty.

Its riches cannot be gotten at except through choice.

You must enter it by loving this person or that person,

And people inevitably fall short of your hopes.

But to live and not love, and not be loved,

Is like spending your entire life alone in your room.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fear of Love

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Nine: A Number Poem About the Last Single-Digit Age

March 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem to a nine year old about the last single-digit age:

Nine is the last single-digit age.

In a year, you’ll require two.

Now, though, it’s too soon to turn the page.

Enjoy this last year of one-digit you!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.

2/27: Four: A poem about the secret of happiness.

2/28: Five: A poem about what five year olds like.

3/1: Six: A poem about the power of the imagination.

3/2: Eight: A poem about childhood fantasies.

3/3: Nine: A poem about the last single-digit age.

Eight: A Poem About Childhood Fantasies

March 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem for an eight year old focusing on childhood fantasies:

Eight year olds have fantasies of power:

In space or castles old, or under sail,

Grappling against darkness they prevail.

However foul the night or bleak the hour,

Troll-spirits wake, and dream a hero's tale.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.

2/27: Four: A poem about the secret of happiness.

2/28: Five: A poem about what five year olds like.

3/1: Six: A poem about the power of the imagination.

3/2: Eight: A poem about childhood fantasies.

Six: A Poem About the Power of the Imagination

March 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem for a six year old about the power of the imagination:

Six-year-olds love acting out their parts.

Imagination underlies all arts,

X-ing out the humdrum in their hearts.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.

2/27: Four: A poem about the secret of happiness.

2/28: Five: A poem about what five year olds like.

3/1: Six: A poem about the power of the imagination.

Five: A Poem About What Five Year Olds Like

February 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem about what five year olds like:

Five year olds like books and bears,
Ibises and rocking chairs,
Violets, peaches, pandas, pears,
Elephants, horses, hats, and hares.

 © by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.

2/27: Four: A poem about the secret of happiness.

2/28: Five: A poem about what five year olds like.

Four: A Poem About the Secret of Happiness

February 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem for a four year old about the secret of happiness:

Four years old is just what I am now.

Of all the ages, four years old is best

Until I'm five, and so on with the rest.

Remember: to be happy, this is how.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.

2/27: Four: A poem about the secret of happiness.

Three: A Poem About the Gift of Childhood Imagination

February 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem for a three year old about the gift of childhood imagination:

Three year olds parade around the room,

Half here and half not-here. The radiant mind

Renders worlds upon its magic loom,

Even as adults watch from their gloom,

Enchanted with the gift they left behind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.