We May Be like Leaves upon the Wind

May 8, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 12.

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

A Mother’s Day poem from adult children who have moved away to various distant places:

We may be like leaves upon the wind,

Each dancing towards our fated patch of earth,

Leaving in a gust of slanting rain

Or at some sunlit touch, our place of birth.

Vivid memories of life at home,

Early love, most vivid love, of you,

Your arms the world, your touch our organ tone:

One sea of bliss beneath all that we do,

Unloosing tears as dark and wide we roam.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

5/7: Here Are All Your Children in One Place

5/8: We May Be like Leaves upon the Wind

Here Are All Your Children in One Place

May 7, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 12.

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

A Mother’s Day poem accompanying the gift of a photograph of all of a mother’s adult children:

Here are all your children in one place,

Enshrined behind some glass within a frame.

A picture's like a word, a sign, a name,

Symbolic of a much more complex grace.

Years of memories lie behind each face,

A wild sea no blessing can contain;

Years and years of love, of joy, of pain,

Of mysteries no heart can hope to trace.

Here are all the objects of your love,

A frozen section cut away from Time,

A summit between dreams and memories,

Which you need only look this way to climb;

An icon for domestic reveries

Through which a thousand answered prayers move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

5/7: Here Are All Your Children in One Place

There's No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

May 6, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 12.

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

A Mother’s Day poem addressed to a mother about the beauty of her love:

There’s no love sweeter than the love you feel,

No passion that’s more passionate than yours,

No joy more beautiful, no grace more real,

No wonder more beyond both woe and weal,

No pleasure with a more abundant cause.

There’s no love sweeter than the love you feel,

No laughter that would wounds more quickly heal,

No sunshine that would give more troubles pause,

No joy more beautiful, no grace more real.

For mother’s love is like a sailboat’s keel

That reaches deep to brace a bliss that soars.

There’s no love sweeter than the love you feel,

No insight that would greater truths reveal,

No wisdom that would tender higher laws,

No joy more beautiful, no grace more real.

For your love is the love that turns the wheel,

And to each generation life restores.

There’s no love sweeter than the love you feel,

No joy more beautiful, no grace more real.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

Good God! I Never Dreamed You'd Graduate

May 5, 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 graduation poem from someone who didn’t graduate to someone who did.

Good God! I never dreamed you’d graduate!

Remember when we both flunked chemistry,

And got by math and bio with a D,

Drunk the night we planned to study late?

Unless I’ve got it wrong, you then dropped out,

And took off a semester -- or was it two? --

To work full time. I lost sight of you,

Intending to call, but too screwed up, no doubt.

Our competence is wholly in our care.

Now I’m still here, and you? Well, you’re up there!

© 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

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

5/2: The Parents of a Graduate

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

5/4: Make Your Mark upon the World

5/5: Good God! I Never Dreamed You’d Graduate

Make Your Mark upon the World

May 4, 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 graduation poem in which the institution speaks to its graduates of their intertwined fates:

Make your mark upon the world!

The marker comes from here.

March on life with flags unfurled!

Your provenance is clear.

You are our product, carrying

The sanction of our seal.

We are your foundry, marrying

Our knowledge to your zeal.

What you make of it is yours,

But it is also ours.

For what you do beyond our doors

Documents our powers.

Do it well, for both of us!

Our fates are intertwined.

Make your mark, for only thus

Might we sweet favor find.

© 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

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

5/2: The Parents of a Graduate

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

5/4: Make Your Mark upon the World

Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

May 3, 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 and graduation poem thanking teachers for the gift of their knowledge:

Thank you for being where all these years went.

Happiness comes from the people we are,

And so much of what we are now comes from here,

Nearby our hearts still, our minds still ajar.

Knowledge is wealth that can never be spent.

Years from this day, as we search for some star,

Over us clouds, our harried heads bent,

Unthinking, some long-ago wind will skies clear.

© 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

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

5/2: The Parents of a Graduate

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

The Parents of a Graduate

May 2, 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 the graduate to his or her parents for their love:

The parents of a graduate

Have much they should be proud of.

All ought to congratulate

Not our work, but their love.

Know that you have made me, me;

You shape my efforts still.

Out of your sweet certainty

Unaltered came my will.

© 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

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

5/2: The Parents of a Graduate