Fortune Is a Patchwork

June 4, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate, fortune, and free will.

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A philosophical number poem about the interplay between fortune and choice:

Fortune is a patchwork. What it gives

Is always linked to what it gives away.

For one makes choices one cannot rescind

That shape the miracles of every day.

Yet chance, too, has its uninvited say.

One sets one’s sails according to the wind,

Never less than hopeful as one lives

Each moment with the choice one leaves behind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate, Fortune, and Free Will

6/3: Fortune Comes Embellished with Small Print

6/4: Fortune Is a Patchwork

Fortune Comes Embellished with Small Print

June 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fate, fortune, and free will.

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

A philosophical number poem about the acceptance of fortune:

Fortune comes embellished with small print.

Of course you get the product that you chose,

Reasonably like the one you saw,

Though, perhaps, distorted by the pose.

Yet of its codicils there is no hint.

Take it all! Take it! For who knows

What might have been? Afoot on any shore,

One who loves the sea can be content.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate, Fortune, and Free Will

6/3: Fortune Comes Embellished with Small Print

My Love for You Is Simple, Deep, and Strong

June 2, 2019

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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 expressing love without words, yet with words as well:

My love for you is simple, deep, and strong.

I feel it flowing towards you from my heart,

A tide of unsophisticated song,

Sung with much desire and little art.

I cannot tell my love, but it will show

In ways that even I cannot foresee;

A love as full as mine must overflow

Into everything that makes me, me.

Just as the sun must shine to be the sun

And trees burst forth in blossom every year,

So I must love in ways that everyone

Can see or sense or reason out or hear.

Still, I'll tell you of my love in this:

For fear, despite all, you might my love miss.

© 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

5/30: Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me

5/31: Thank You for Staying in My Life

6/1: My Husband Cheats. I Look the Other Way

6/2: My Love for You Is Simple, Deep, and Strong

My Husband Cheats. I Look the Other Way

June 1, 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 reluctantly turning down a true but mutually illicit love:

My husband cheats. I look the other way.

For the children, of course. I myself am worthless,

Stupid. Humiliation suits me. Each day

I steel myself for words each day more vicious.

But you are like a rainbow in my sky.

I look at you and know life can be good.

You call me gorgeous, I don't wonder why.

And happiness shines through me, as it should.

You, too, bear a cross: Your friend has cancer,

And you will not desert her. I agree.

Our love must be a question, not an answer,

A distant light on hills we cannot see.

Perhaps we are both fools to sacrifice,

Yet in such love is where true beauty lies.

© 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

5/30: Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me

5/31: Thank You for Staying in My Life

6/1: My Husband Cheats. I Look the Other Way

Thank You for Staying in My Life

May 31, 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 thank-you and love poem thanking a lover for remaining in the relationship after a breakup: 

Thank you for staying in my life.

How could I have ushered you away?

Another person might have made me pay,

Needing the sweet vengeance of my grief.

Kindness is in everything you do.

You must love me very much to stay.

Often now, some moment of each day,

Unbidden, I am grateful I have you.

© 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

5/30: Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me

5/31: Thank You for Staying in My Life

Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me

May 30, 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 number and love poem about the need for mutuality in romance:

Tell me more, my love, how much you love me;

When I am hungry, chill me with a kiss.

Endlessly proclaim your admiration,

Never try to hide your fascination,

Though at times I may do aught amiss.

You, of course, may ask the same of me.

That you put nothing in your life above me

Will aid in me a similar dedication.

Only thus do lovers spin their bliss.

© 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

5/30: Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me

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.

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

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