More Pain Cannot Be Wrung from Those Who Wait

August 21, 2019

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I was away from August 7^th to August 19^th, so for this theme the poems have been divided as follows: The first two poems appeared on August 5^th and 6^th; the last five poems will appear from August 21^st through August 25^th. The theme for this divided week is social issues.

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

A poem about missing persons:

More pain cannot be wrung from those who wait

In fear and hope of both the worst and best.

Some day, perhaps, their hearts might find some rest,

Sure in grief or joy of their clear fate.

In the meantime, time is agony;

No second passes but impatiently,

Given the cruel passions of their state.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Social Issues

8/5: Bullies Like to Pulverize Their Pain

8/6: Cheating Is a Crime Against Oneself

8/21: More Pain Cannot Be Wrung from Those Who Wait

Cheating Is a Crime Against Oneself

August 6, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

I will be away from August 7^th to August 19^th, so for this theme the poems will be divided as follows: The first two poems will appear on August 5^th and 6^th; the last five poems will appear from August 21^st through August 25^th. The theme for this divided week is social issues.

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

A poem about cheating:

Cheating is a crime against oneself,

Hardening the insufficient heart.

Each finds in lies an easy path to pleasure,

Abandoning the way that leads to joy.

The choice is ever open, but the gulf

Increases as the actor plays his part.

No one who cheats can cherish long his treasure,

Given what of self-love lies destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Social Issues

8/5: Bullies Like to Pulverize Their Pain

8/6: Cheating Is a Crime Against Oneself

Bullies Like to Pulverize Their Pain

August 5, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

I will be away from August 7^th to August 19^th, so for this theme the poems will be divided as follows: The first two poems will appear on August 5^th and 6^th; the last five poems will appear from August 21^st through August 25^th. The theme for this divided week is social issues.

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

A poem about bullying:

Bullies like to pulverize their pain,

Unleashing torrents of humiliation,

Lost in a cruel lust they can’t restrain,

Longing for elusive admiration,

In vicarious hells of their creation

Even as they strike again, again,

Stripped of all but fear of isolation.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Social Issues

8/5: Bullies Like to Pulverize Their Pain

Somewhere There Are Seraphim

August 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 angels.

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

A poem locating seraphim in the human heart:

Somewhere there are seraphim

Singing night and day

Ecstatically, eternally,

In their seraphic way.

Somewhere there are seraphim

Singing songs of praise

To God, Who sits upon His throne

In glory as they gaze.

Somewhere there are seraphim,

Trillions, quintillions strong,

A masterful mass madrigal

Arising from the throng.

Somewhere there are seraphim

Singing each its part.

Where? Why here! Can't you hear?

Deep within the heart.

© 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

8/3: Lest Angels Prove Too Poignant in Their Pity

8/4: Somewhere There Are Seraphim

Lest Angels Prove Too Poignant in Their Pity

August 3, 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.

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

A name poem imagining angels overwhelmed as they share our pain at the loss of a loved one:

Lest angels prove too poignant in their pity,

Inundated by redundant tears,

Not yet inured to loss that rends and sears,

Dream with them of that celestial city

Ablaze with love not battered by the years.

© 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

8/3: Lest Angels Prove Too Poignant in Their Pity

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.

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

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