A New Play on the Mueller Report

Dear Subscriber,

Sorry to bother you with a note instead of a poem, but I’ve just completed a play, The Miller Report: A Play on the Mueller Report, which you can read online or download as a .pdf file at https://www.poemsforfree.com/themillerreport.html .

If you’re interested in what the Mueller Report says, but have neither the time nor the patience to wade through it all, you might be able to experience it through the play in an interesting and enjoyable way.  Although the characters in the play are fictional, the incidents and much of the dialogue are taken straight from the Mueller Report, as well as some of the analysis found in the summaries.

Please feel free to share the link (or attach the .pdf) widely, or to produce the play in whatever venue might be available, so that as many people as possible can see what the Report contains.

Thanks for your interest and help,

Nick Gordon

The Lord Has Been Merciful to Me

May 17, 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 thanking the Lord for continued mercy:

The Lord has been merciful to me.

For I have sinned all the sins of this place

That preys on weakness and traffics in sin,

And He has not turned away from me.

For I have sinned all the sins of this place,

And sinned and repented and sinned again,

And He has not turned away from me,

Nor blinded my eyes, nor hardened my heart.

And sinned and repented and sinned again,

And He has remained even here, in this place,

Nor blinded my eyes, nor hardened my heart,

Nor left me alone. Praise the Lord!

And He has remained even here, in this place,

That preys on weakness and traffics in sin,

Nor left me alone. Praise the Lord!

The Lord has been merciful to me.

© 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

5/17: The Lord Has Been Merciful to Me

May We Learn to Undergo Your Love

May 16, 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 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

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/maywel.html For more poems about religion, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html .

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

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/gracec.html. For more poems about religion, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html .

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

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/faithi.html. For more poems about religion, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html .

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

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/audrey.html. For more poems about religion, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Religion

5/13: Audrey

Mothers Make the Most of Memories

May 12, 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 today, May 12.

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

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

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/moth16.html. For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html .

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