So How Long Should England Pay for What It Did

March 16, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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

A St. Patrick’s Day poem about crime and reconciliation:

So how long should England pay for what it did

To Ireland? Or India? Or Kenya?

Perhaps justice would require a famine,

A few million dead, its stolen wealth

Taken back by those from whom it came.

Remember well the crimes, and on the grid

In history’s ledgers enter in full the terror.

Choose truth and reconciliation, else,

Kind for kind, there is no end to pain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race

3/12: Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy

3/13: Sinners All, We Ask for Your Forgiveness

3/14: St. Patrick Rid the Emerald Isle of Snakes

3/15: St. Patrick’s Day Commemorates the Turning

3/16: So How Long Should England Pay for What It Did

St. Patrick's Day Celebrates the Turning

March 15, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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

A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the importance of historical events to all:

St. Patrick's Day commemorates the turning

To Christianity of Irish clans.

Perhaps, if you're not Irish, there's no burning

Ache to march, so you've got other plans.

The day, however, marks a special moment

Regarding the persuasion of us all.

Islands are not islands of the spirit;

Callings come to more than hear the call.

Know that we are one, and Irish monks

'Ere we were born redeemed us with their prayers,

Sang our chants and gave our gracious thanks,

Died our deaths and climbed our golden stairs.

All changed for all after Patrick's day;

Years turn, and yet their winds within us play.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race

3/12: Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy

3/13: Sinners All, We Ask for Your Forgiveness

3/14: St. Patrick Rid the Emerald Isle of Snakes

3/15: St. Patrick’s Day Commemorates the Turning

St. Patrick Rid the Emerald Isle of Snakes

March 14, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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

A St. Patrick’s Day poem about both inner and outer saints and inner and outer snakes:

St. Patrick rid the emerald isle of snakes,

Though only those that crawl upon the ground.

Perhaps not even he had what it takes,

Although a puissant saint, and well renowned,

To cast out those whose children still abound.

Remaining in our hearts, as when of old

In Eden green they tempted us to sin,

Cold and lean they grow more passing bold,

Knowing we've cast out the saint within.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race

3/12: Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy

3/13: Sinners All, We Ask for Your Forgiveness

3/14: St. Patrick Rid the Emerald Isle of Snakes

Sinners All, We Ask for Your Forgiveness

March 13, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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

A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the ubiquity of God’s love:

Sinners all, we ask for Your forgiveness

As we await the hour of Your return.

If only grace were something one could earn!

Nor can we hope to imitate Your goodness.

The saints know well the hopelessness of being

Put upon the pedestal of faith

As though we had already gained Your grace.

The heart is naked to Your restless seeking.

Regard us all, then, equally with love:

In saints and vicious pederasts find lovers,

Cherishing not one above the others,

Knowing none has anything to prove.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race

3/12: Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy

3/13: Sinners All, We Ask for Your Forgiveness

Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy

March 12, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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

A St. Patrick’s Day love poem:

Sing me a love song for my Irish boy;

Take from me my heart, my head, my home;

Pass to him my body, life, and joy;

Add to his my fields of fertile loam.

To him I am and will be earth and heaven,

Resting in the sanctum of his fire;

In me he'll find all his gods have given,

Creating dynasties of his desire.

Know, my love, that I will come to you

'Ere this sun has set on Patrick's Day;

So you must find the courage to be true,

Daring to give other dreams away.

After this leap, all loneliness is past:

Years may come and go, but love will last.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race

3/12: Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy

Sing in Celebration of Your Race

March 11, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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

A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the effect of ethnicity on one’s personality:

Sing in celebration of your race,

The anonymous composer of your song,

Passionate provider of your grace,

A host to which you cannot help belong.

Take a day to sing of who you are,

Rejoicing in the choice of what must be,

In gratitude for what, beyond the bar,

Chooses in dark joy one's history.

Know the lineaments of ancient lore

'Ere you feel and act, and know not why.

Stories long forgotten lie in store,

Destined for revision by and by.

All you are and do is not by chance,

Yet you may face your partners as you dance.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race

How Can I Have a Fight with My Best Friend

March 10, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about fearing love after fights:

How can I have a fight with my best friend?

The mountain blows, the landscape is destroyed.

A desert where there once were fields and gardens.

Black lava where flowers once brought joy.

And then shoots of grass come through the blackness;

Slowly love asserts itself again.

He calls, I cry, we go through days of whispers,

And fields once more grow lush in sun and rain.

Ah! but now I'm fearful of the mountain:

I walk by trembling, set for it to blow.

Life's beautiful, but also very painful;

I have the strength to love, now that I know.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fear of Love

3/4: Your Fear Is Not Surprising

3/5: There Is No Life Without Its Share of Pain

3/6: Love Lingers in the Alleyways

3/7: The Apartment Is Dark

3/8: You Wrote Your Name upon Her Thigh

3/9: When Love Is an Affliction

3/10: How Can I Have a Fight with My Best Friend