There Is No Field as Fertile as Your Love

May 11, 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 thank-you poem from a child who is about to leave home:

There is no field as fertile as your love.

How can I hold back my grateful tears?

All your gifts my heart takes notice of,

Now that my departure from you nears.

Know that I remember the caresses

You absently bestowed upon my hair,

Or in the dark a thousand, thousand kisses

Upon my cheek to tell me you were there.

Most of what you've done for me, like flowers

Of a season, sprouted, bloomed, and died.

The memories of all those faithful hours,

However, helped shape who I am inside.

Eventually, everything we do

Returns to us, as now my love to you.

© 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

5/9: A Love like Yours Deserves Some Celebration

5/10: You Took Us In and Loved Us as Your Own

5/11: There Is No Field as Fertile as Your Love

You Took Us In and Loved Us as Your Own

May 10, 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 to a woman who raised someone else’s children:

You took us in and loved us as your own

Though you were old enough to need some rest.

Now you are eighty and alone,

Rattling on within your empty nest.

Though we no longer live within your doors,

You will always live within our hearts.

I think of you, and that sweet thought restores

My happiness, as my own Red Sea parts.

This you've done for me, more than the toil,

The prostrate nights, the scarce funds spent, the pain:

Your love and selflessness have been the soil

In which my life can always bloom again.

I cannot think what I would do or be

Without the love that you have given me.

© 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

5/9: A Love like Yours Deserves Some Celebration

5/10: You Took Us In and Loved Us as Your Own

A Love like Yours Deserves Some Celebration

May 9, 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 celebrating aunts:

A love like yours deserves some celebration,

Untying the occasion from the womb.

Nor need this day serve only one relation,

There being for such homage ample room.

Sing, then, of aunts, who help make children bloom.

© 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

5/9: A Love like Yours Deserves Some Celebration

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