All My Happiness Goes Out to You

June 25, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and wedding poem wishing a couple happiness:

All my happiness goes out to you:

Pride and pleasure, joy, sweet tears, and love!

Reason, hope, and faith together move

In harmony to bless all that you do.

Let this beginning be the golden dawn

At which all dew-drenched nature sings its glory!

Nor should the darkness shrouding every story

Dim the blue-eyed beauty of this morn.

More of life will come than you can hold:

A flood no mortal witness can withstand.

Rest, then, within a quiet, gentle hand,

Knowing where love is as you grow old.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Weddings

6/24: A Wedding Is the Entrance to a Marriage

6/25: All My Happiness Goes Out to You

A Wedding Is the Entrance to a Marriage

June 24, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A wedding poem about the marriage that follows the wedding:

A wedding is the entrance to a marriage:

One drives through, and suddenly one's there!

Stepping from a fairy tale carriage

Into quite ordinary air.

Life is now a dance, though beautiful,

Requiring intense coordination;

Each self becomes, in ways inscrutable,

More fully what it is in combination.

And we who love you wait, of course, outside

As you become through love that mystery:

One flesh made whole of separate groom and bride;

Two selves, one life; two notes, one harmony.

When you are one, we then may cherish two:

Loving not just one, but both of you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Weddings

6/24: A Wedding Is the Entrance to a Marriage

Graduations Sometimes Can Be Sad

June 23, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since now is the time many schools in the U.S. are having their graduations, the theme for this week is graduation.

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

A graduation poem about sadness and loss:

Graduations sometimes can be sad,

Removing from our world a world of friends,

An instant that, in golden garments clad,

Divides our bright beginnings from our ends.

Underneath our confidence and pride

A sense of loss like music haunts the heart,

Telling us that what we are inside

Is presently a place we must depart.

Our years have yielded paradise and pain,

Nor will we ever taste such fruit again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given that We’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

6/20: To Graduate Is like a Crow

6/21: Give Me Just This Moment, Please, Forever

6/22: Josh2

6/23: Graduations Sometimes Can Be Sad

Josh2

June 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since now is the time many schools in the U.S. are having their graduations, the theme for this week is graduation.

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

A name and graduation poem for a classmate who died years before he would have graduated:

Josh would have graduated with our class,

One of us had he not long since died.

So shall he be, though years and lifetimes pass,

Here in his place, with us by his side.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given that We’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

6/20: To Graduate Is like a Crow

6/21: Give Me Just This Moment, Please, Forever

6/22: Josh2

Give Me Just This Moment, Please, Forever

June 21, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since now is the time many schools in the U.S. are having their graduations, the theme for this week is graduation.

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

A graduation poem about the wish to remember the moment of graduation:

Give me just this moment, please, forever.

Replicate it for me on demand.

As I flow unceasingly downriver,

Do not make me leave this day behind.

Understand my bittersweet confusion

As graduation crystallizes youth,

Tallying my treasures with precision,

Illuminating well a wistful truth.

Out of all my moments pluck this one,

Nor let me lose its grace when it is gone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given that We’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

6/20: To Graduate Is like a Crow

6/21: Give Me Just This Moment, Please, Forever

To Graduate Is like a Crow

June 20, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since now is the time many schools in the U.S. are having their graduations, the theme for this week is graduation.

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

A graduation poem for children comparing graduation to a number of animals and situations:

To graduate is like a crow

Flying up into a tree.

Once he gets there he can see

The younger children down below.

To graduate is like a frog

Hopping up from stair to stair.

He doesn't know until he's there

How high he is above the bog.

To graduate is as though you

Were climbing up a rocky hill.

Up and up you go until

You’re at the top and see the view.

Up and up and up we go

From grade to grade, from hop to hop.

Why do we hop all the way to the top?

When we get there, we will know.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given thatWe’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: GraduationsCan Be Bittersweet

6/20: To Graduate Is like a Crow

Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

June 19, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since now is the time many schools in the U.S. are having their graduations, the theme for this week is graduation.

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

A bittersweet graduation poem about the pain and joy of graduation:

Graduations can be bittersweet,

Reminding us of all that's come and gone:

All our battles, whether lost or won,

Days of bliss, and days of near defeat.

Underneath our pride there is the sense,

Almost like a wound, of something past,

The beauty of a time that cannot last,

In which we shared the joys of innocence.

Open vistas lie before our eyes;

Now’s the time for hopes and for goodbyes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given that We’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: Graduations Can Be Bittersweet