Happy Halloween! An Oxymoron

November 2, 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 apparent clash between dread and pleasure, fantasy and truth:

Happy Halloween! An oxymoron?

Although one’s dread and pleasure might appear

Like fantasy and truth to clash, therein

Lie the close-knit twins of fun and fear.

Of course one savors fear through fantasy,

Willing to enjoy it as a truth

Each plays with in the endless play of me,

Embracing the full repertoire of be,

Needing night-worlds brutal and uncouth.

© 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

10/31: Hold On to What You Know

11/1: Horror Is a Comfort, Isn’t It?

11/2: Happy Halloween! An Oxymoron

Horror Is a Comfort, Isn't It?

November 1, 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 need to feel terror:

Horror is a comfort, isn’t it?

A break from both the real and the ideal.

Life comes in rainbow feelings, doesn’t it?

Leave terror out, and don’t feel all you feel.

Open up your heart to wonder’s winter

Whispering of an untimely death,

Even as your well-worn worries whimper,

Each obsession going limp and limper,

Neck waiting for the thrill of icy breath.

© 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

10/31: Hold On to What You Know

11/1: Horror Is a Comfort, Isn’t It?

Hold On to What You Know

October 31, 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 impossibility of shutting out the monsters within:

Hold on to what you know:

A tiny point of light.

Let the monsters be

Left slithering through the dark.

One by one they go,

Well kept well out of sight,

Even though we see

Each in fantasy.

Nor did they board the ark.

© 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

10/31: Hold On to What You Know

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