Love Is Never Vague or General

February 5, 2020

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

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A poem about the specificity of love:

Love is never vague or general:

It's all about thin fingers and fat toes.

What makes someone attractive no one knows,

But all know that it isn't rational.

There is a chemistry, some catalyst:

A scent, a lilt of voice, a social grace,

Some subtle hint impossible to trace,

Fit fodder for a gentle satirist.

But passion is, of love, merely the seed:

It's love itself that most engenders love.

And here again, mysteries silent move,

Shifting darkly where there is most need.

Love is about a casual caress,

A patient silence in which souls can dance,

An obvious, clumsy gesture towards romance,

A comfort zone where long, hard days undress.

It's all about the richness of a night

In which two lovers work to keep the glow:

The feel of skin, the way a tongue moves slow,

The thousand tiny things that make things right.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

2/3: A Girlfriend’s Neither Gotten nor Forgotten

2/4: Sometimes I Wish I Were a Wall

2/5: Love Is Never Vague or General

Sometimes I Wish I Were a Wall

February 4, 2020

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 love poem in which a lover wishes he could bear his lover's pain:

Sometimes I wish I were a wall

Upon which you could hang your pain--

To see it so, to know its beauty,

Bond of yearning, bearing love.

Pain is color, in between

Desire and death, white and black;

Light's most lovely at the dawn,

And then, again, approaching night.

Sometimes I wish that I could kiss

The world and take away all pain,

Feel it all, for everyone,

And then go mad to prove I'm real.

But love continues, as does pain,

And death engenders both, for aye,

And the river murmurs ceaselessly

Around the bend on which we live.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

2/3: A Girlfriend’s Neither Gotten nor Forgotten

2/4: Sometimes I Wish I Were a Wall

A Girlfriend's Neither Gotten nor Forgotten

February 3, 2020

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 love poem about what a girlfriend is and isn’t:

A girlfriend's neither gotten nor forgotten.

She's never just a friend who is a girl.

She doesn't wear a nameplate or a flower.

You never can be certain she’s the one.

You're going to have to jump right off a building

And probably break your ego and your neck.

Nine times out of ten you'll wish you'd vanished,

But one time out of ten--why, there she'll be!

A girlfriend isn't something you acquire.

A girlfriend is a person, not a thing.

And if you leap and land next to the right one,

She'll burn her image right into your heart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

2/3: A Girlfriend’s Neither Gotten nor Forgotten

I Want to Say I Love You on Your Birthday

February 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday love poem from a rejected lover:

I want to say I love you on your birthday,

Though love is something you don't want from me.

Things didn't go so well when I last said it,

And so I'll keep it silent in my heart.

But how the words reverberate within me!

A song that I must struggle not to sing,

A music I must dance to without motion,

A poem that I must never read aloud.

Your wishes are a wall I would not scale,

Yet won't abandon, loathe to leave behind.

I cannot have, and cannot bear to lose you,

And so I send you this in my despair.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Unrequited Love

1/27: You Don’t Love Me, but Ah! Do I Love You

1/28: I Want You, but I Don’t Want You to Know

1/29: I Know that You Don’t Feel for Me

1/30: Eventually, You’ll Understand I Love You

1/31: Love Me the Way I’ve Long Loved You

2/1: Adrianna Rules My Sovereign Heart

2/2: I Want to Say I Love You on Your Birthday

Adrianna Rules My Sovereign Heart

February 1, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and love poem to a flirt:

Adrianna rules my sovereign heart,

Delighting in my daily desperation.

Rack and ruin are the inspiration

In which she finds a purpose for her art.

Alas! I cannot give her up, for she

Need only smile to make my poor heart dance,

Need only touch my arm to make me prance

About inside, a fool no truth can free.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Unrequited Love

1/27: You Don’t Love Me, but Ah! Do I Love You

1/28: I Want You, but I Don’t Want You to Know

1/29: I Know that You Don’t Feel for Me

1/30: Eventually, You’ll Understand I Love You

1/31: Love Me the Way I’ve Long Loved You

2/1: Adrianna Rules My Sovereign Heart

Love Me the Way I've Long Loved You

January 31, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about a love unrequited from childhood:

Love me the way I've long loved you,

As long as memory.

The child next door conceived a love

Only you will see.

Rare and wonderful this love:

Reason not the why.

It waits unquestioning for you,

Even till I die.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Unrequited Love

1/27: You Don’t Love Me, but Ah! Do I Love You

1/28: I Want You, but I Don’t Want You to Know

1/29: I Know that You Don’t Feel for Me

1/30: Eventually, You’ll Understand I Love You

1/31: Love Me the Way I’ve Long Loved You

Eventually, You'll Understand I Love You

January 30, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem from a spurned yet still-hopeful lover:

Eventually, you'll understand I love you.

Miracles turn commonplace in time.

I'll simply be there, and then my feelings for you,

Like saplings planted in your yard, will find

Years enough to shield you from the wind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Unrequited Love

1/27: You Don’t Love Me, but Ah! Do I Love You

1/28: I Want You, but I Don’t Want You to Know

1/29: I Know that You Don’t Feel for Me

1/30: Eventually, You’ll Understand I Love You