Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Six Years Old? How Can That Be

March 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

A sixth birthday poem about how swiftly time goes by:

Six years old? How can that be?
Just weeks ago, you were three!

I remember! Yes, I do!
Just months ago, you were two!

Oh, my! Oh, my! The time goes by!
And now you're six? Please tell me, why?

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays
3/27: Six Years Old? How Can That Be

Monday, March 25, 2019

You're Five

March 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

A fifth birthday poem about how long the child has been alive:

You're five! You're five!
So long alive!
So many years
You've had your ears!
And had your nose!
And had your toes!

So Happy Birthday, little one!
We hope you have a lot of fun!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays
3/26: You’re Five

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Brenda Is Four

March 25, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

A fourth birthday poem about how fast a child grows:

Brenda is four!
Soon she'll grow more.
Soon she won't fit
Through the front door!

Soon she'll be bigger
Than you ever saw --
Too big for the house!
Too big for the floor!

Ouch! Brenda cried
As she fell through the floor.
And what do you know?
Soon she'll grow more!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays
3/25: Brenda Is Four

Saturday, March 23, 2019

Joy Is Not a Treasure You Can Lose

March 24, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An epitaph for a musician:

Joy is not a treasure you can lose.
Unless you will not, you will be consoled.
Linger with me long as you may choose.
In music as in life no joy is cold.
Undo, then, the tight corset of your grief
So that you might enjoy the moment's keening.
Give ear to music, eloquent though brief,
Restoring to the miracle its meaning.
Of all we think and feel and say and do,
So little, really, must be bound by time.
Still palpable, I'm here with all of you,
Musical as ever in this rhyme.
All I was, I am, and yet will be,
No less in love, although in memory.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs
3/24: Joy Is Not a Treasure You Can Lose

Friday, March 22, 2019

Do Believe I'll Never Leave You

March 23, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An epitaph from a father, addressed to his children:

Do believe I'll never leave you:
Always I'll be in your heart.
Don't forget my soul is near you:
Death might take my presence from you,
Yet we'll never be apart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs
3/23: Do Believe I’ll Never Leave You

Thursday, March 21, 2019

All of You Must Know How Much I Loved You

March 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An epitaph for a mother, addressed to her children:

All of you must know how much I loved you.
Never did I stint on saying so.
In death you were the song that let me go
To sleep in beauty, dancing as I sang you.
And though I'm gone, don't think that I'll forget you.
Just think of me as waiting, even though,
Agnostic or believer, you may know
No certainty beyond what love can tell you.
Each of you still lives within my heart.
Though I am not, I am. So is the truth
Opposed to sense, more relevant than thought.
What is, is often what could never be.
Nor need you grieve, though we may seem apart.
Sing with me, as we look back with ruth,
Each the source of what sweet balm we sought,
No mother and children more in touch than we,
Deep within life's unsolved mystery.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs
3/22: All of You Must Know How Much I Loved You

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Clarity Is Something That I Savored

March 21, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An epitaph for a woman who devoted her life to social change:

Clarity is something that I savored,
Lending reason to a worthy cause.
An uncommitted life is not worth living,
Relinquishing the claims for the rewards,
Embracing the illusions of the favored.

Remember me as one who never wavered,
Obeying stubbornly the highest laws,
Defending what had little chance of winning,
Not caring for the consequence, or giving
Even one brief glance at waiting jaws,
Yet loving well the world for which I labored.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs
3/21: Clarity Is Something That I Savored