In Every Point of View That's Held Sincerely

July 7, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).

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

An Independence Day poem about the need to embrace opposing truths through love:

In every point of view that’s held sincerely,

Not intended for manipulation,

Decent folks just speaking from the heart,

Each selfish, selfless, idealistic cynic

Pursues a radiant, iridescent truth.

Embrace them all, ingenuously and dearly,

Nor deem one truth not worth consideration

Despite your own perhaps dissenting part.

Each voice adds to the beauty of Earth’s music,

Nor does a vivid counterpoint need proof.

Clearly there is hatred, yes, quite clearly,

Eluding reason, fact, faith, love, relation,

Damning all belief, truth, passion, art,

A scourge that turns the sweetest truth acidic.

Yet love puts all truths under one large roof.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation

7/2: Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived

7/3: Justice Is a Collection Agency

7/4: Indeed, This Should Be Interdependence Day

7/5: Inevitably, the World Will Be One Country

7/6: Jury’s Still Out, I Guess, on Democracy

7/7: In Every Point of View That’s Held Sincerely

Jury's Still Out, I Guess, on Democracy

July 6, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).

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

An Independence Day poem about the uncertainty of democracy’s survival:

Jury’s still out, I guess, on democracy.

Unfortunately, it ever will be so.

Let go the wished-for verdict, let it go,

Yielding to a sure uncertainty.

False democracies continually

Overrun wherever laws can’t grow.

Underneath our waves, an undertow

Returns our hopes for freedom to the sea.

The forecast even here now threatens pain --

Here, where we must rise again, again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation

7/2: Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived

7/3: Justice Is a Collection Agency

7/4: Indeed, This Should Be Interdependence Day

7/5: Inevitably, the World Will Be One Country

7/6: Jury’s Still Out, I Guess, on Democracy

Inevitably, the World Will Be One Country

July 5, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).

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

An Independence Day poem about the world as one country:

Inevitably, the world will be one country,

Nor will there be a need for barbed-wire borders

Defending those that have from those that haven’t.

Everyone will have an equal voice

Politically in governing the Earth.

Eventually, humanities’ shared bounty

No longer will be siphoned off by hoarders,

Divvied up unmercifully, with blatant

Economic myths to mask their choice,

Needing myths to justify their worth.

Change will come, a summer wind or wintry,

Evolving or rebelling, a new order

Destined by demography, emergent,

As some lament their loss and some rejoice,

Yet all yield to the light of this rebirth.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation

7/2: Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived

7/3: Justice Is a Collection Agency

7/4: Indeed, This Should Be Interdependence Day

7/5: Inevitably, the World Will Be One Country

Indeed, This Should Be Interdependence Day

July 4, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).

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

An Independence Day poem about the interdependence of nations:

Indeed, this should be interdependence day.

No nation can lay claim to independence.

Despite the myth of sovereignty, we are

Entangled in a web of greed and need,

Poised upon the lip of life's destruction.

Eventually, pain will have its way,

Nor will we fail forever our descendants.

Death comes singing anthems from afar,

Even as each victim is a seed

Now blowing in the wind of our redemption.

Come, then, for the Earth will have its say,

Eloquent on the subject of dependence.

Divided, we have not the strength to bar

A nation from its exercise of greed.

Yet as one world, we can avoid extinction.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation

7/2: Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived

7/3: Justice Is a Collection Agency

7/4: Indeed, This Should Be Interdependence Day

Justice Is a Collection Agency

July 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).

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

An Independence Day poem arguing for a government role in the redistribution of wealth:

Justice is a collection agency,

Uniting what one pays with what one owes.

Let the government collect the fee

Yearly, rebalancing the highs and lows.

Free markets are efficient but not just:

One after all must beat the competition.

Unions, taxes, fines can temper lust,

Restoring rivals to the same condition.

To be sure, the rich still have it made;

However, the poor’s bill must first be paid.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation

7/2: Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived

7/3: Justice Is a Collection Agency

Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived

July 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).

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

An Independence Day poem about the true derivation of rights:

Indeed, from whom or what are rights derived?

Need we pin them on some deity,

Dependent for them on some fragile faith?

Even so, we cannot do without them,

Predisposed to fear and rage and greed.

Embrace them, then, however they arrived,

Nature’s scaffold for morality,

Destined to the power of kings replace,

Enduring truths so salient none should doubt them,

Nor more nor less than what the heart decreed.

Crafted, then, by love, to love ascribed,

Each right is more than mere legality,

Dependent on a purely human grace,

As those who love must keep their bliss about them,

Yielding self to a more urgent need.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation

7/2: Indeed, from Whom or What Are Rights Derived

Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation

July 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).

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

An Independence Day poem about the way our view of justice has changed:

Justice now means food, health, habitation.

Unequal access means unequal right.

Let us understand that as a nation

Years have changed the foci of our sight.

Freedom once applied to property.

One did with what one owned as one saw fit,

Using land or slave or factory

Ruthlessly, for what it might remit.

Today, one can’t do simply as one would,

Having monetized a common good.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

7/1: Justice Now Means Food, Health, Habitation