Hear the Children Squeal with Fright

October 30, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which is celebrated on October 31.

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

A Halloween poem about children’s enjoyment of Halloween fear:

Hear the children squeal with fright,

Anxious pleasure, sheer delight,

Letting go their urge for flight,

Loving fear with all their might,

Old enough to know the rite

Well enough to last the night,

Even though the chest is tight,

Even though the limbs are light,

Now ready for the bliss of blight.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/28: Hinder Not the Hobgoblins

10/29: Here Is Neither Here nor There

10/30: Hear the Children Squeal with Fright

Here Is Neither Here nor There

October 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which is celebrated on October 31.

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

A Halloween poem about truth and dream:

Here is neither here nor there.

A moment’s never now.

Lest you don’t know what this means,

Let your world take wing.

Old verities, beyond repair,

Were neither what nor how,

Each a distillate of dreams,

Enduring hopes, enduring screams,

None can help but sing.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/28: Hinder Not the Hobgoblins

10/29: Here Is Neither Here nor There

Hinder Not the Hobgoblins

October 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Halloween, which is celebrated on October 31.

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

A Halloween poem about the psychological benefits of horror:

Hinder not the hobgoblins

As they wander through

Lands deserted, desolate,

Lands forbidden day.

Oh, yes, they’ve sampled mortal sins

We would never do,

Each a horror we create,

Enraged, tight-fisted, choked with hate …

Now let them out to play.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Halloween

10/28: Hinder Not the Hobgoblins

You'll Have to Woo Your Wife Again

October 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about the need for romance after marriage:

You'll have to woo your wife again,

And then again, and then again,

As many times as there are times

A well-worn silence tells you when.

You'll have to play the lover new,

All hot to touch and squeeze and kiss,

All shivery with ecstasy

Unbuttoning the buds of bliss.

You'll have to re-seduce a flesh

Familiar as your own raw nude

With praise and passionate displays

Of need and joy and gratitude.

For you need not give up for life

The pure and simple gift of lust.

A marriage does as marriage is:

The play of pleasure, love, and trust.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Marriage

10/21: Families Are the Girders Underneath

10/22: If I Had Married You Instead of Her

10/23: Marriage Is a Turn Towards Innocence

10/24: Marriage Is the Closest Kind of Friendship

10/25: My Anger Stands Between Us like a Wall

10/26: No Place to Put My Paramour

10/27: You’ll Have to Woo Your Wife Again

No Place to Put My Paramour

October 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about the frustration of desiring love outside of marriage:

No place to put my paramour,

No sea to sail unknown,

Nowhere to bear my love away

That we might be alone.

No life but wife and children who

Must be with me till death.

No passion new nor passion true

That breathes with every breath.

No love but love invincible

That ties me to myself,

For I am why I cannot be

A sly, deceiving elf.

For I am why I cannot be

A person who risks pain,

And so I weep because I keep

My dreams alive in vain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Marriage

10/21: Families Are the Girders Underneath

10/22: If I Had Married You Instead of Her

10/23: Marriage Is a Turn Towards Innocence

10/24: Marriage Is the Closest Kind of Friendship

10/25: My Anger Stands Between Us like a Wall

10/26: No Place to Put My Paramour

My Anger Stands Between Us like a Wall

October 25, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about the need in a marriage to let go of anger:

My anger stands between us like a wall,

Or a river of burning brimstone straight from Hell.

I love you, and I want to love you well;

I call for help, but you can't hear my call.

I love you for the man that you've become

And for the years we've put into this life.

But all the pain I've suffered as your wife

Has left my poor, scarred spirit deaf and dumb.

God help me, please! I need to cross to you

And live the life I never thought we could.

Be patient with my anger, and the good

Within us will my fisted thoughts undo.

I know the fault is mine now, and I'll try

To let go of the wounded, dying past.

For us and for our son this has to last.

And so I bid my angry soul good-by.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Marriage

10/21: Families Are the Girders Underneath

10/22: If I Had Married You Instead of Her

10/23: Marriage Is a Turn Towards Innocence

10/24: Marriage Is the Closest Kind of Friendship

10/25: My Anger Stands Between Us like a Wall

Marriage Is the Closest Kind of Friendship

October 24, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about the closeness of a married couple:

Marriage is the closest kind of friendship.

Years of traffic wear away the lines

Between two souls with similar designs,

Ending more in unity than kinship.

Separate actors must play separate parts:

They must alone be riveted by need.

Far beneath that soil a single seed

Roots itself, tenacious in their hearts.

In love there is a trust beyond the word.

Each finds peace in each, as though the light

Needed the tranquility of night,

Deeper than what silence can be heard.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Marriage

10/21: Families Are the Girders Underneath

10/22: If I Had Married You Instead of Her

10/23: Marriage Is a Turn Towards Innocence

10/24: Marriage Is the Closest Kind of Friendship