Fortune Often Will Return the Favor

June 9, 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.

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

A philosophical number poem about how one might influence one’s fortune:

Fortune often will return the favor.

If one serves well, then one will be well served.

For most, the problem will be seeing it,

Thinking that their fate is not deserved.

Yet fate’s the destination of behavior.

Though one might be a droplet in a stream

Hurtling through the rapids of one’s times,

Remember that one also walks on roads,

Ever choosing to descend or climb,

Ever more in charge than it might seem.

© 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

6/5: Choice Is Just a Ripple

6/6: Freedom Doesn’t Come from Being Free

6/7: Forty-Three Has Been Well Served by Fortune

6/8: Souls Are Sovereign in Their Own Domain

6/9: Fortune Often Will Return the Favor

Souls Are Sovereign in Their Own Domain

June 8, 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 illusion of the sovereignty of the soul:

Souls are sovereign in their own domain,

In which they rule for better or for worse,

X’s turning as the tides reverse,

The flotsam calculating loss and gain

Yet floating on a sea of joy and pain.

Now they come together, now disperse,

Intent on more than yearning can contain.

Nor need they billows bless nor currents curse,

Each free to will the wind it would sustain.

© 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

6/5: Choice Is Just a Ripple

6/6: Freedom Doesn’t Come from Being Free

6/7: Forty-Three Has Been Well Served by Fortune

6/8: Souls Are Sovereign in Their Own Domain

Forty-Three Has Been Well Served by Fortune

June 7, 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 both the difficulty and necessity of choosing one’s fortune:

Forty-three has been well served by fortune.

Often, though, the trick is just to know it.

Reasons may abound to feel abused.

To feel blessed is like listening to music,

Yearning to hear the song that one is hearing.

There is in all lives much that is endearing.

How could one not turn to it and choose it?

Remember that sweet choice when life's confused,

Embracing what one has and quick to show it,

Each love one touches with a generous passion.

© 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

6/5: Choice Is Just a Ripple

6/6: Freedom Doesn’t Come from Being Free

6/7: Forty-Three Has Been Well Served by Fortune

Freedom Doesn't Come from Being Free

June 6, 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 how one might choose freely:

Freedom doesn’t come from being free.

One’s choices are not wholly of one’s will.

Reason cannot choose dispassionately,

There being too much sun for it to chill.

Yet one must choose at length, for good or ill.

So what might make one free in such a state?

Enduring choices fostered over time,

Vested in an accidental fate

Embedded in a well-conceived design,

Not free until a servant of some kind.

© 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

6/5: Choice Is Just a Ripple

6/6: Freedom Doesn’t Come from Being Free

Choice Is Just a Ripple

June 5, 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 poem about the illusion of choice:

Choice is just a ripple in

The river of one's fate,

A moment when one's consciousness

Stamps motion with a date.

A trillion causes join to form

One tremor in one's flow.

A trillion trillion trillion tell

One's will which way to go.

And yet one chooses, for one has

No choice but to be free,

And choose each bend of the widening stream

That takes one to the sea.

© 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

6/5: Choice Is Just a Ripple

Fortune Is a Patchwork

June 4, 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 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