Poem of the Week

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

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

5/12: Mothers Make the Most of Memories

Saturday, May 11, 2019

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.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

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

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

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

Thursday, May 9, 2019

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.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

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

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.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

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