Thank You for Being the Heart of My Life

December 21, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A thank-you poem for love:

Thank you for being the heart of my life,

Harboring me in the arms of your love,

Anchoring me in the rock of your faith,

Needing me, that I not be in vain,

Knowing me well, yet loving me still.

You are the island I've found in my sea,

Ocean I dwell in and deep where I dive,

Unfailing heaven and passionate earth.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You

12/16: Maybe There’s No Way That I Can Thank You

12/17: Thank You All for Coming Here

12/18: Thank You for Your Letters, Cards, and Calls

12/19: The Greatest Gifts Are Those That Cost Us Least

12/20: Thank You for the Things You’ve Done for Me

12/21: Thank You for Being the Heart of My Life

Thank You for the Things You've Done for Me

December 20, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A thank-you poem thanking a friend for help through a difficult time:

Thank you for the things you've done for me.

Happiness walks slowly, with a cane.

Although inside I'm dancing to the moon,

Nearby many obstacles remain.

Kind help like yours those thorny thickets prune.

You are my willing ear, the peaceful sea

On which I sail my thoughts, the quiet tune

Underneath my laughter and my pain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You

12/16: Maybe There’s No Way That I Can Thank You

12/17: Thank You All for Coming Here

12/18: Thank You for Your Letters, Cards, and Calls

12/19: The Greatest Gifts Are Those That Cost Us Least

12/20: Thank You for the Things You’ve Done for Me

The Greatest Gifts Are Those That Cost Us Least

December 19, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A thank-you poem for the greatest gift:

The greatest gifts are those that cost us least:

Price varies inversely with true worth.

Life itself's a free gift of the earth

Born of ecstatic joy in plant and beast.

What more exquisite present than a bower

Of wild roses in adolescent bloom?

Yet all that vivid color and perfume

Exist to serve the interests of the flower.

Love is such a gift. One trusts its treasure,

Free as the strange bright outbursts of a bird,

Equally uncanny and absurd,

Comes not from sweat or sacrifice, but pleasure.

I'm grateful for the gift you bought. But do

Remember that the greatest gift is you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You

12/16: Maybe There’s No Way That I Can Thank You

12/17: Thank You All for Coming Here

12/18: Thank You for Your Letters, Cards, and Calls

12/19: The Greatest Gifts Are Those That Cost Us Least

Thank You for Your Letters, Cards, and Calls

December 18, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A thank-you poem for get-well letters, cards, and calls:

Thank you for your letters, cards, and calls,

Heartfelt prayers, and thoughts while I was ill,

A wind that bears us on when courage stalls,

Needed to sustain a weakened will.

Kindness is a balm that works on wounds

Yet unhealed by reasoning alone.

Our suffering abated, life resumes,

Undergirt by strength more than our own.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You

12/16: Maybe There’s No Way That I Can Thank You

12/17: Thank You All for Coming Here

12/18: Thank You for Your Letters, Cards, and Calls

Thank You All for Coming Here

December 17, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem to thank guests for coming to a birthday party:

Thank you all for coming here

To celebrate my life.

But most of all I'd like to thank

My lovely, loving wife.

One gives up a lot for love

In freedom, time, and tears,

And makes commitments that must last

For lifetimes, not just years.

What one gets I can see here --

A world one can call home,

A space that's safe for innocence,

A common comfort zone.

And so I'm glad that you have come,

All gathered in this place

To share this bit of birthday joy,

To share this glimpse of grace;

To share this meal with me as I

Another year accrue,

That I might know the happiness

I wish for all of you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You

12/16: Maybe There’s No Way That I Can Thank You

12/17: Thank You All for Coming Here

Maybe There's No Way That I Can Thank You

December 16, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and thank-you poem about the inadequacy of art to express the fullness of one’s gratitude:

Maybe there’s no way that I can thank you.

I would, however, certainly like to try.

Caring needs no cause or reason why.

Hardwired to happiness, it sustains you.

And so there is no way to recompense you

Equal to the joy that meets the eye.

Let this be, then, merely a reply,

A bit of fancy that I hope might please you.

Nor can the song that sings within my heart

Descend upon the stage of my desire,

Prepared to turn my feelings into grace.

Out of thwarted need, I turn to art,

Like settling for the painting of a fire,

Less than a true rendering would require,

Yet what I would now tender in its place.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You

12/16: Maybe There’s No Way That I Can Thank You

Seasons Sing with Unrelenting Passion

December 15, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Season’s Greetings.

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

A Season’s Greetings poem about how the seasons shape one’s inner life:

Seasons sing with unrelenting passion,

Each delighted utterly to be.

All are beautiful in their own fashion,

Singing songs that shape the way we see.

Oceans dance to music not their own,

Needing moon and wind to shape their will,

‘Mid mind and act a choice, but not alone,

Shifted by the shore, yet dancing still.

Grace comes from without and from within,

Receding and then turning back, like tides,

Enduring as desire, as faith, as whim,

Enduring where one’s sense of life abides.

The seasons come and go, the rhythm of

Imagination, longing, will, and love.

Nor can one be whole except as part,

Giving voice to a collective art,

Singing, singing to a common heart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Season’s Greetings

12/9: Sentimental Moments Are Well Planned

12/10: Some Sense Soon the Sense of Celebration

12/11: Sense Is Not the Sense of Celebrations

12/12: So Shall the Changing Seasons Mark the Year

12/13: Sing of the Holidays That Send One Home

12/14: Seasons Come and Go; the Love Remains

12/15: Seasons Sing with Unrelenting Passion