Here There Are No Angels of Despair

August 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 angels.

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A second anniversary poem about the joy of angels alighting on all who love:

Here there are no angels of despair.

Arrayed in choirs, they sing only of joy.

Performing for the sheer delight of being,

Poised between the act of sight and seeing,

Yet infinite, yet of this earth, they toy

Scholastically with being here nor there,

Eden's hosts, though none the worse for wear,

Come down from that sweet hilltop, anguish fleeing.

On those they light who for another care,

Now filling with their ecstasy the air,

Dear hints of bliss no evil can destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Angels

7/29: Angels Are Quite Confident

7/30: Even Angels Feel the Pangs of Love

7/31: Even Angels Tire of Ecstasy

8/1: Grateful Angels Sing at Heaven’s Gates

8/2: Here There Are No Angels of Despair

Grateful Angels Sing at Heaven's Gates

August 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem contrasting angels’ love of God to ours:

Grateful angels sing at Heaven's gates

In choirs, well, perhaps five trillion strong,

Unleashing love insatiable in song,

Love unknown to those of other fates.

In us, so far removed from such high states,

Alien even to where we belong,

Neither here nor there for very long,

A love like that retreats, and doubts, and waits.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Angels

7/29: Angels Are Quite Confident

7/30: Even Angels Feel the Pangs of Love

7/31: Even Angels Tire of Ecstasy

8/1: Grateful Angels Sing at Heaven’s Gates

Even Angels Tire of Ecstasy

July 31, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem imagining the boredom of eternal ecstasy:

Even angels tire of ecstasy.

Very few can stare at God with pleasure

Eons upon eons, as the sea

Lies featureless across its teeming treasure.

Yet we have grace to look and then recover.

No joy but fades, to give way to another.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Angels

7/29: Angels Are Quite Confident

7/30: Even Angels Feel the Pangs of Love

7/31: Even Angels Tire of Ecstasy

Even Angels Feel the Pangs of Love

July 30, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem about angels' vicarious experience of human love:

Even angels feel the pangs of love.

(Vicariously, of course - their love is pure.)

Each finds a human love to serenade,

Leaving its perfection in the shade,

Yearning for the pain it must endure,

Near ecstasy with what it knows not of.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Angels

7/29: Angels Are Quite Confident

7/30: Even Angels Feel the Pangs of Love

Angels Are Quite Confident

July 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem contrasting the innocent lives of angels with ours:

Angels are quite confident,

Now they are on high.

Given whom they represent,

Each appearing Heaven sent,

Let them serve God innocent

As we live and die.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Angels

7/29: Angels Are Quite Confident

What Happens When the Girl You've Always Wanted

July 28, 2019

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

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

A love poem giving advice to someone who has lost his love:

What happens when the girl you've always wanted

Breaks up with you? Are you forever haunted

By thoughts of her with someone else? By the thought

That never, never will you love like that

Again? The jewel of day is gone. You see

Bitter blackness until death. Ay me!

What more can someone in such pain want

Than death?

The girl you've always wanted need not haunt

You long. If she no longer loves you, then clearly

She's not the one. The pain lasts only rarely,

Because a healthy love, like any fire,

Requires a match.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

7/25: Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You

7/26: Although You Are with Someone Else

7/27: I Want You Back Now that You’re Gone

7/28: What Happens when the Girl You’ve Always Wanted

I Want You Back Now that You're Gone

July 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem begging a loved one to come back after a breakup:

I want you back now that you're gone.

My heart's a pit no love can fill.

I stumble through my days of stone

Bereft of joy, bereft of will.

I could not tell myself I loved

You as I did for fear of pain.

Far easier not to be moved,

Than moved to love, and hurt again.

How stupid! I loved anyway,

And now the blame is all my own.

Please rescue me, this torture stay,

And for my sin I will atone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

7/25: Pretend This Poem Is Me, and I Am with You

7/26: Although You Are with Someone Else

7/27: I Want You Back Now that You’re Gone