The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

April 30, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A graduation poem about the challenges that await:

The years of getting ready are now over.

On you now lies the burden of your life.

The teachers that await you will be tougher,

Having need to use you for their wealth.

Even so, you stand upon tall shoulders,

Granted the sweet chance to be prepared,

Ready to assume the work of others,

Anxious for the wind that bears your word.

Do well, my dear one! All my love goes with you

Underneath the rhythm of your day,

An organ tone that will not wane or waver

Though you run through the gates that mark your way,

Exultant in your work as in your play.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

4/30: The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

April 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A thank-you poem from a graduate to his or her family:

These past few years have not been easy for me.

How I made it through them, I can't say.

All your love has helped me reach this day.

Now I cast my thanks upon your sea,

Knowing of the love that's there for me,

Yearning all these years for what’s now mine.

Only in that love can I define,

Unloosing all my fears, my self-to-be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

Zion National Park

April 28, 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 Zion National Park:

Zion Canyon is the work of water

In concert with the winds that shape the heart.

One sees a grandeur equal to one's wonder;

Nor can one be, but of such grace a part.

© 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

4/28: Zion National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park

April 27, 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 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