How Necessary Is It to Remind

February 13, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which will be celebrated tomorrow, February 14.

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A Valentine’s Day poem about the need for an annual occasion to speak of love:

How necessary is it to remind

A loving couple that they are in love?

Perhaps a well-placed word might pierce the rind,

Penetrating hearts that dormant prove.

Years accumulate like fallen snow,

Vast fields of understanding, thick and cold,

As time surrenders even those who know,

Leaving love a story long since told.

Each year, therefore, occasion must be made,

Name-day of love, that lovers all might speak,

Taking a risk that else they might evade,

In search of pleasure even angels seek.

Need comes slowly, like a warm spring rain.

Except one sing, the song must be in vain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/10: How Might One Know Love Except by Loving

2/11: How Much Can One Person Love Another

2/12: I Miss You Terribly This Day of Love

2/13: How Necessary Is It to Remind

I Miss You Terribly This Day of Love

February 12, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14.

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

A poem about the pain of separation on Valentine’s Day:

I miss you terribly this day of love,

Miss you with a wound that stabs and aches.

I see the love around me, and it takes

So much strength simply just to move.

Soon, soon, my love, this waiting will be done.

You and I will have what we desire.

On days like this we'll sit beside the fire,

Undoing all the pain of days long gone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/10: How Might One Know Love Except by Loving

2/11: How Much Can One Person Love Another

2/12: I Miss You Terribly This Day of Love

How Much Can One Person Love Another

February 11, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14.

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

A Valentine’s Day poem about a love that seems without limits:

How much can one person love another?

A universe exists in time and space,

Placed within the boundaries of one place,

Placed within a time far from forever.

Yet love comes to us from some quite other,

Visiting our sorrow with its grace,

Answering our rage with its embrace,

Leaving just a whisper of its wonder.

Even as I say this, you are there,

Nestling in where need undoes the day,

Taking up your small infinity.

Inside my heart, you wander everywhere,

Nor would I wish such innocence away

Even were life bitter as the sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/10: How Might One Know Love Except by Loving

2/11: How Much Can One Person Love Another

How Might One Know Love Except by Loving

February 10, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14.

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

A Valentine’s Day poem about the need to love in order to know what love is:

How might one know love except by loving?

A crush is sometimes right, but often wrong,

Perhaps because it's short, and life is long,

Perhaps because the proof is in the pudding.

Years go by, and one is always moving;

Very little truth can come along.

A week, a month, a year – love still seems strong;

Longer, and the trick is one of choosing.

Enduring love depends on mutual need,

Need acknowledged, open, unashamed

To say, I do not want to be alone.

If one could put aside one's pride and bleed,

No gift of gratitude would go unnamed,

Even if the landscape turned to stone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

2/10: How Might One Know Love Except by Loving

Fate Is Oft the Filament of Passion

February 9, 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 number poem about the relationship between love and fate:

Fate is oft the filament of passion,

Illumined by the force of its fierce flow.

For love, far more than chance, may fortunes fashion,

The unwilled will that wills the world we know.

Years break, yet love maintains the tides below.

Of love, fate is the most precise expression,

Nor could one find a more complete confession,

Even as good tidings come and go.

© 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

2/6: Lovers Sometimes Rub Each Other’s

2/7: Each Truth Is like a Scrim Across the Darkness

2/8: Love Is like a Large White Cat

2/9: Fate Is Oft the Filament of Passion

Love Is like a Large White Cat

February 8, 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 poem comparing love to the personality of a cat:

Love is like a large white cat

Sitting on its paws.

You may pet it all you like;

It lives by its own laws.

It comes and goes as it decides

No matter what you say.

It seems the more you want it near,

The more it goes away.

And then when you are quite content

To sit out in the sun

Alone with just your thoughts and dreams,

Not needing anyone,

Out it comes, as if in fear

That somehow you'll forget,

And jumps up purring in your lap,

Demanding to be pet.

© 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

2/6: Lovers Sometimes Rub Each Other’s

2/7: Each Truth Is like a Scrim Across the Darkness

2/8: Love Is like a Large White Cat

Each Truth Is like a Scrim Across the Darkness

February 7, 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 philosophical poem about the wisdom of risking love:

Each truth is like a scrim across the darkness.

We cannot see what most we'd like to know.

We drive among sheer cliffs in pale moonlight

Unsure of where we are or where to go.

When we allow our heads to make our choices,

We lose because of what we cannot see.

When we give way and let desire take us,

We lose because we want what cannot be.

We inch along the dream-lit rocky ridges

Knowing always, always we must lose.

The end for all is darkness everlasting,

And so it matters less which road we choose.

What matters is the beauty of sheer being;

The gifts we have and those we will become;

The ecstasy of loving so completely

That we ourselves are more than minds can plumb.

Love well and know that love must end in pain.

Be a fool and pay the unmarked price.

Be generous of self, and passion gain:

One who never loses, loses twice.

© 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

2/6: Lovers Sometimes Rub Each Other’s

2/7: Each Truth Is like a Scrim Across the Darkness