Bryce Canyon National Park

April 27, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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

A poem about the beauty of Bryce Canyon National Park:

Bryce Canyon is a crumbling sculpture garden

Resting in a giant cup of stone,

Yielding in a golden wash of sun

Colors so intense as to awaken

Embers of a love from time unknown.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/22: And These Are the Islands

4/23: Global Warning

4/24: Mountains Mark the Boundaries of Our Dreams

4/25: Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place

4/26: Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

4/27: Bryce Canyon National Park

Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

April 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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

A number poem about the harmony between humans and their environment before the domestication of plants and animals:

Twenty-five remembers when the world

Was not our slave, when rivers danced and sang

Entering their gauntlets, when grass and fire

Needed each other, and earth and flood. The choir

Then sang full throated, the food each season sprang

Yet thrashing to the feasts of those who served.

For thousands of millennia we lived

In harmony with those we ate, their spirits

Vested momently in flesh, their avid

Embers still in love with those who grieved.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/22: And These Are the Islands

4/23: Global Warning

4/24: Mountains Mark the Boundaries of Our Dreams

4/25: Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place

4/26: Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place

April 25, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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

A number poem about the psychological significance of wilderness:

Thirty-two guards well a sacred place,

Hallowed not by faith but by raw beauty.

In wilderness one finds an ancient other,

Remnant of a long-forsaken mother,

To safeguard which is both a joy and duty.

Years pass, yet he will guarantee this grace.

Tough and succulent, bare-boned and fruity,

Wilderness presents the world full face,

Over which no qualm has thrown its cover.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/22: And These Are the Islands

4/23: Global Warning

4/24: Mountains Mark the Boundaries of Our Dreams

4/25: Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place

Mountains Mark the Boundaries of Our Dreams

April 24, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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

A poem about the psychological significance of mountains:

Mountains mark the boundaries of our dreams.

Over them lies nothing more than Heaven.

Use them to take well your wistful measure,

Nor can you enter them without the pleasure

That comes from being dwarfed by one great given,

As Being becomes just the God it seems.

In awe one finds a tonic for the soul,

Needing to pay homage to the whole,

Silent angel swelling sacred streams.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/22: And These Are the Islands

4/23: Global Warning

4/24: Mountains Mark the Boundaries of Our Dreams

Global Warning

April 23, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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

A poem about our responsibility to save all of life from our destructive ways:

Global warning,

Likening us to lichens

Or pairing us with pandas

Because we are bone of one bone

And flesh of one flesh:

Life can end.

What would we?

Are we driven to be driven?

Revved to rev?

Need we what we need?

If each cell is a cellmate,

Now all may lose all,

Given that life is not a given.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/22: And These Are the Islands

4/23: Global Warning

And These Are the Islands

April 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated today, April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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

A poem about the increasing destruction of hurricanes and typhoons due to global warming:

And these are the islands, tiny green drops

On the broad bright blue canvas of tropical seas.

And these are the great white wheels spinning like tops,

Swallowing mountains as the sea swallows rocks,

Swallowing churches and children and trees,

Swallowing islands like tiny green drops

With their warehouses, schoolhouses, dollhouses, shops,

With their dreams and intentions and sweet fantasies,

All smashed by the great white wheels spinning like tops

That gorge on the profits of energy stocks

And the fumes of our lust for convenience and ease,

Heedless of islands like tiny green drops

And the people who live on them tending their crops

Or working in offices, homes, factories,

Devoured by monsters spinning like tops

In a line of disasters no tragedy stops

Despite the raw poignance of powerless pleas …

And these are the islands, tiny green drops.

And these are the great white wheels spinning like tops.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/22: And These Are the Islands

Each Soul Is like a River Bearing Love

April 21, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover was on April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated today, April 21^st.

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

An Easter poem about soul and the self:

Each soul is like a river bearing love

Across a desert thirsty for its treasure,

Sliding towards the sea, where it will lose

The self, which would its burden weigh and measure,

Even as it irrigates green fields,

Rewarded by the grace its gift reveals.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

4/15: Every Garden Needs Diversity

4/16: Each Moment Is a Miracle

4/17: Everyone at Times Is Resurrected

4/18: Here We Have a Story for the World

4/19: Perhaps a Meal Ought Not Bear So Much Weight

4/20: Every Holiday Makes Life More Special

4/21: Each Soul Is like a River Bearing Love