The Chance of Happiness Equals the Risk of Pain

May 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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A number and love poem about a love that both has ended and will never end:

The chance of happiness equals the risk of pain.

Whenever you love, it's too good to be true.

Even so, it's truer than you believe,

Nor will you know till it vanishes again.

Time is a sea which opens where you cleave

Yet roils over what you leave behind.

For now, my love sings in the stars,

Or hisses against rocks like the sea,

Unraveling your life when you pause to grieve,

Returning with the sunlight, with the rain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

5/27: Your Heart Is Just as Lovely as Your Face

5/28: Lose Yourself in Lust, My Love

5/29: The Chance of Happiness Equals the Risk of Pain

Lose Yourself in Lust, My Love

May 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the need for lust and fantasy in love:

Lose yourself in lust, my love;

Enjoy me as a thing.

Make my flesh your fantasy;

My soul, your sycophant.

I would you would with me, my love,

Let all your voices sing,

Losing not one ecstasy

That some sweet sin might grant.

For love loves not that secret space

Where dreams turn into wounds,

Festering for lack of care,

Untended but by stealth.

Love enjoys a secret grace,

Calliope of tunes

Inexhaustible, for there,

In trust, lies love's true wealth.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

5/27: Your Heart Is Just as Lovely as Your Face

5/28: Lose Yourself in Lust, My Love

Your Heart Is Just as Lovely as Your Face

May 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem declaring a hopeless love:

Your heart is just as lovely as your face.

I can't believe you ever could love me.

Gifted with a more than human grace,

You're meant for some more noble destiny.

I watch you from the sidelines in a dream

That never can come true. Yet nonetheless,

My heart is happier than it might seem:

I shiver in the warmth of your caress.

I may not be the mirror for your eyes,

But fortune has been decent, on the whole.

I cannot know your heart or hear your cries,

But love for you illuminates my soul.

My looks have made me shy, so please take this

As it is meant: an unrequited kiss.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Romantic Love

5/27: Your Heart Is Just as Lovely as Your Face

Jodie

May 26, 2019

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

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A name poem for a disabled child who is her mother’s treasure:

Jodie's not the burden that she thinks.

Of all my gifts, she's the dearest treasure.

Destiny may handicap the minx:

In love there's neither policy nor measure,

Embracing what must bring both pain and pleasure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Disabilities

5/20: Light of the Senses

5/21: Jeremy2

5/22: Joanie

5/23: I Lost My Sight and Found My Son

5/24: Look Not on My Body but My Soul

5/25: Sebastian

5/26: Jodie

Sebastian

May 25, 2019

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

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

A name poem for a blind person who sees all the beauty of life with his other senses:

Sebastian may be blind, but he can see

Everything extant to you and me.

Because his sight is safely tucked away,

All his other senses come to play,

Singing in the sunlight of their song,

Taking bits of paradise along.

In life there is no limit to our joy,

A gift whatever senses we employ.

Nor if our hearts can see, will we go wrong.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Disabilities

5/20: Light of the Senses

5/21: Jeremy2

5/22: Joanie

5/23: I Lost My Sight and Found My Son

5/24: Look Not on My Body but My Soul

5/25: Sebastian

Look Not on My Body but My Soul

May 24, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about the outer ugliness of a deformed person and his or her inner beauty:

Look not on my body but my soul,

Only on the face behind the veil,

Only with the touch of inner Braille,

Knowing through yourself my being whole.

Nor ought you touch my skin but with your heart,

Only in the tenderness of love.

Though my outer self repulsive prove,

Of me the mask is but a minor part.

Nor should you know me out of charity:

Misfortune can become a kind of grace,

Yielding special wisdom to a few.

Bring mainly for yourself your empathy,

Opening a richer, wider view,

Doorway to a person much like you

Yet fired by the fate he must embrace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Disabilities

5/20: Light of the Senses

5/21: Jeremy2

5/22: Joanie

5/23: I Lost My Sight and Found My Son

5/24: Look Not on My Body but My Soul

I Lost My Sight and Found My Son

May 23, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about how blindness brought a new kind of blessing:

I lost my sight and found my son.

I needed you; you came to me.

I thought my joy in life was done.

You showed me what I could not see.

I needed you; you came to me.

How beautiful to have made you!

You showed me what I could not see:

That life and love are ever new.

How beautiful to have made you!

I thought my joy in life was done.

But life and love are ever new.

I lost my sight and found my son.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Disabilities

5/20: Light of the Senses

5/21: Jeremy2

5/22: Joanie

5/23: I Lost My Sight and Found My Son