May We Learn to Undergo Your Love

May 16, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is religion.

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A prayer for faith and love:

May we learn to undergo your love

And to accept your mercy and your might.

And when we are undone by coming night,

May your grace our sinful spirits move.

May everything we do be done for love.

May we manage lust as best we might.

May the dark communion of the night

Our hearts towards charity and patience move.

May our anger be the fruit of love,

And hatred be alone of unjust might.

May we know the beauty of the night

And let not fear of death our joy remove.

May we love you well, as well we might,

And thus move through your day towards your good night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Religion

5/13: Audrey

5/14: Faith Is What One Cannot Know

5/15: Grace Comes Unexpectedly

5/16: May We Learn to Undergo Your Love

Grace Comes Unexpectedly

May 15, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is religion.

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

A name poem about the ordinariness of grace:

Grace comes unexpectedly

In barns on bitter nights,

Ultimately ordinary

Lest we claim our rights.

Invisible to those who see,

A veil to those who know,

No miracle or mystery

Descends to us below;

Just immanence immaculate

Awake within our sleep,

Salient as a centipede

Out strolling on a heap,

Not strange enough to keep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Religion

5/13: Audrey

5/14: Faith Is What One Cannot Know

5/15: Grace Comes Unexpectedly

Faith Is What One Cannot Know

May 14, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is religion.

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

A poem about the nature of faith:

Faith is what one cannot know,

But one decides is true,

As though one looked out on a wall

And painted on a view.

One knows the provenance of one's

Belief, but truth is more

Than stating with some certainty

What stands outside one's door.

Truth has many voices

That speak to mind and heart

In many languages derived

From science, myth, or art.

Faith is just one inner voice

That sings in harmony

With what the mind can comprehend

And what the eye can see.

And if one feels God's presence where

No proof can find its way,

Yes, that is real, as real as grass,

And true in its own way.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Religion

5/13: Audrey

5/14: Faith Is What One Cannot Know

Audrey

May 13, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is religion.

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

A name poem for a child who died in infancy:

Audrey died within my arms,

Undone in infancy.

Despite my pain, I saw in her

Resplendent dignity.

Each soul's a naked gift of grace,

Yet loved by us and Thee.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Religion

5/13: Audrey

Mothers Make the Most of Memories

May 12, 2019

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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 today, May 12.

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A Mother’s Day poem about how mothers make lasting memories of love:

Mothers make the most of memories,

Offering a past that's rich in love.

There may be anger followed by despair;

However, the embrace is always there,

Enduring though the years indifferent prove,

Remembered underneath the melodies

Singing through some distant evening air.

© 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

5/12: Mothers Make the Most of Memories

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