Life for Most of Us Has Not Improved

September 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 work in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 2.

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

A Labor Day poem about the suffering of billions of people and what might be done about it:

Life for most of us has not improved.

A few billion live in agony.

Beasts live better, and are far more free.

Of course, the rest of us are deeply moved.

Remember, then, though business may be brisk,

Decency demands we buy and sell

At prices that reward the labor well,

Yet yield returns that justify the risk.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Work

9/2: Unions Are a Gift of Our Own Giving

9/3: Let Unions Bear Some Blame for Their Demise

9/4: Life for Most of Us Has Not Improved

Let Unions Bear Some Blame for Their Demise

September 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is work in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated yesterday, September 2.

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

A Labor Day poem about how corruption in unions helped weaken them:

Let unions bear some blame for their demise.

All were not corrupt, but far too many

Blessed the criminals and kissed their rings,

Organized to serve only themselves.

Remember what is lost when something dies

Despite the need for it. There isn't any

Alternative to what true union brings –

Yearning that with shared resolve rebels.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Work

9/2: Unions Are a Gift of Our Own Giving

9/3: Let Unions Bear Some Blame for Their Demise

Unions Are a Gift of Our Own Giving

September 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is work in honor of Labor Day, which is celebrated today, September 2.

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

A poem about the value of unions:

Unions are a gift of our own giving,

Nor can we stand without a common spine.

Immense together, miniscule alone;

Organized, a mountain; else a stone;

Needing us to get what's yours and mine:

So must all join that each might make a living.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Work

9/2: Unions Are a Gift of Our Own Giving

Perhaps an Angel Told You Once of Love

September 1, 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 http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A name poem about love as a name for the winds that move the heart:

Perhaps an angel told you once of love,

A spirit pure, not knowing fear or shame.

Until that whispered word, perhaps, you came

Less willing to the winds that some hearts move,

After which you had for them a name.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

8/28: Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

8/29: Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart

8/30: Jeremy Is All I Ever Wanted

8/31: Vic and Jennifer Are Deep in Love

9/1: Perhaps an Angel Told You Once of Love

Vic and Jennifer Are Deep in Love

August 31, 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 http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem about the need to like the one you love:

Vic and Jennifer are deep in love.

Quite a couple, people often say.

They also like each other very much,

Which is not, of course, the usual way.

Often people hate the ones they love

Because they feel all tangled in a net

Of needs and expectations they don't want

And know they can't quite get away from--yet.

But Vic and Jennifer are smart enough

To know the need to like the ones they love;

To enjoy what life and love have put before them,

And dance when they don't have the will to move.

Vic has brown hair, Jennifer's a blonde,

But both display the clearest light blue eyes.

Thus they're different, yet they are the same:

A formula familiar to the wise.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

8/28: Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

8/29: Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart

8/30: Jeremy Is All I Ever Wanted

8/31: Vic and Jennifer Are Deep in Love

Jeremy Is All I Ever Wanted

August 30, 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 http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A name poem about a love that is a yearning for what one has:

Jeremy is all I ever wanted.

Even when my life is going wrong,

Recalling his sweet face brings back my smile,

Escalating all my thoughts to song.

More than I ever dreamed, my heart is haunted,

Yearning for what I have all the while.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

8/28: Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

8/29: Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart

8/30: Jeremy Is All I Ever Wanted

Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart

August 29, 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 http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A name poem about the memory of a past love:

Norma likes to linger in my heart,

Opening memories that sing while weeping.

Remember that the past is in our keeping,

More beautiful than bitter as we part

Again, as though she were awake, then sleeping.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

8/28: Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

8/29: Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart