October Is Self-Confident and Strong

November 8, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A calendar poem for a gracefully aging October:

October is self-confident and strong,

Crisp and ready for the captious wind.

Though life lies less ahead and more behind,

Old age can barely peek through well-clad bones.

Beauty so outrageous can't be wrong,

Even as death steals among the stones,

Resting where the leaves lie battered, blind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Autumn

11/4: Autumn Loves the Clarity of Change

11/5: Autumn Sheds Its Brilliant Tears

11/6: Autumn Is a Sentimental Season

11/7: September Lingers in the Arms of Love

11/8: October Is Self-Confident and Strong

September Lingers in the Arms of Love

November 7, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A calendar poem reminding us that September is the month when many must return to work:

September lingers in the arms of love

Even as a certain crispness calls.

Perhaps some fear she's not yet conscious of

Takes messages as she slows down and stalls,

Embracing joys that soon must be entombed.

More frequently, she starts to feel marooned.

Business bustles busily with tasks,

Each answering more questions than it asks,

Reminding her how life can be consumed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Autumn

11/4: Autumn Loves the Clarity of Change

11/5: Autumn Sheds Its Brilliant Tears

11/6: Autumn Is a Sentimental Season

11/7: September Lingers in the Arms of Love

Autumn Is a Sentimental Season

November 6, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A calendar poem about autumn as a nostalgic season of both grief and delight:

Autumn is a sentimental season,

Undoing with nostalgia summer's dreams.

The sun slants southward, sending golden beams

Underneath the cobalt of one's reason,

Magical among the dying leaves.

Nor can one hold the sweet delight one grieves.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Autumn

11/4: Autumn Loves the Clarity of Change

11/5: Autumn Sheds Its Brilliant Tears

11/6: Autumn Is a Sentimental Season

Autumn Sheds Its Brilliant Tears

November 5, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A calendar poem about how autumn feeds life with its dead leaves while it feeds death by removing the shelter of foliage:

Autumn sheds its brilliant tears,

Undone by darkness, wind, and cold,

Then turns the tears to leafmeal so

Ultimately trees can grow.

Meanwhile, in naked wood and wold,

None can hide as winter nears.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Autumn

11/4: Autumn Loves the Clarity of Change

11/5: Autumn Sheds Its Brilliant Tears

Autumn Loves the Clarity of Change

November 4, 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 Autumn.

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

A calendar poem about how autumn celebrates the shift from life to death with passionate color:

Autumn loves the clarity of change,

Unmerciful redeemer of all being.

To celebrate the shift from green to gray,

Unasked, it adds some poignance to decay,

Making death an aperture for seeing

Not merely loss but passion, rich and strange.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Autumn

11/4: Autumn Loves the Clarity of Change

Halloween's a Playground

November 3, 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 wishing that all terror be confined to the Halloween world of make believe:

Halloween’s a playground,

A funhouse safe from harm.

Let dread remain in costume;

Let fear be fantasy.

One’s soil should be safe ground,

Well governed, rich, and calm,

Each hate denied its rostrum,

Each rage its savagery,

Nor should revenge run free.

© 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

11/3: Halloween’s a Playground

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