Cindy Is a Girl You Ought to See

February 26, 2020

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

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A name poem for a pert, devilish woman deeply rooted in love:

Cindy is a girl you ought to see:

Intelligent, intense, and full of life.

Nor will she lose her pertness as a wife,

Devilish, with the sharpness of a knife,

Yet in her love as rooted as a tree.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

2/24: Larianna’s Beautiful and Blonde

2/25: Stephanie Finds Her Proper Place in Pain

2/26: Cindy Is a Girl You Ought to See

Stephanie Finds Her Proper Place in Pain

February 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for a woman who finds her happiness in giving:

Stephanie finds her proper place in pain.

To her, the greatest happiness is giving.

Each moment that her love flows like a wound

Places all Creation in her heart.

How can she crave the sun while in the rain

A silent neighbor is just barely living?

Nor can her thoughts with nature be attuned

In a world where children's brains are blown apart.

Even so, her words are sweet and sane.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

2/24: Larianna’s Beautiful and Blonde

2/25: Stephanie Finds Her Proper Place in Pain

Larianna's Beautiful and Blonde

February 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for an attractive woman who is not yet ready for love:

Larianna's beautiful and blonde:

A light-skinned goddess sporting hazel eyes,

Rich in qualities that interest guys.

Inside she's still too delicate to bond

As gingerly she tests the weight of love,

Not entering till noon the gated garden.

Now she dances till her values harden,

Affection moving her as a fawn might move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Portraits of Women

2/24: Larianna’s Beautiful and Blonde

Some Would Have the Courage of Their Dreams

February 23, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which this year was celebrated on February 17.

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

A political number poem about the need for dreams to bring about political change:

Some would have the courage of their dreams.

If one falls short, at least one's moved ahead.

Xeroxing the present only means

That one must read what one's already read.

Yet one small change a lifelong quest redeems.

Fate must reap what will has left for dead.

One need not accept a world that seems

Unchangeable, or shrug when blood is shed,

Resigned as once we were to kings and queens.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/17: Great Ends Demand Great Sacrifice

2/18: Greatness Is Effect Far More than Cause

2/19: Greatness Is the Child of Choice and Chance

2/20: The President Was Without Precedent

2/21: Seventy-Six Has Sown the Sacred Seed

2/22: Sixty-Six Is Now in Full Career

2/23: Some Would Have the Courage of Their Dreams

Sixty-Six Is Now in Full Career

February 22, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which this year was celebrated on February 17.

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

A political number poem about an activist who uses music to combat racism and injustice:

Sixty-six is now in full career,

Invested in an activist esthetic.

Xenophobes, take heed and you will hear

The songs that undermine your greed and fear,

Your need to make relations hierarchic.

So might the world in time turn empathetic

If oft-sung songs can make delight more dear,

X-ing out the hatreds that hearts sear.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/17: Great Ends Demand Great Sacrifice

2/18: Greatness Is Effect Far More than Cause

2/19: Greatness Is the Child of Choice and Chance

2/20: The President Was Without Precedent

2/21: Seventy-Six Has Sown the Sacred Seed

2/22: Sixty-Six Is Now in Full Career

Seventy-Six Has Sown the Sacred Seed

February 21, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which this year was celebrated on February 17.

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

A political number poem about passing on progressive politics to later generations:

Seventy-six has sown the sacred seed,

Ensuring that another generation,

Vested in the cause of liberation,

Engages in the politics of justice.

Nor after centuries is there less need.

The archetypal rulers are relentless.

Yet one can pit one's love against their greed.

Sing, then, of an inherited vocation,

Identities along a chain that's endless,

Xeroxing the dream that marks the breed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/17: Great Ends Demand Great Sacrifice

2/18: Greatness Is Effect Far More than Cause

2/19: Greatness Is the Child of Choice and Chance

2/20: The President Was Without Precedent

2/21: Seventy-Six Has Sown the Sacred Seed

The President Was Without Precedent

February 20, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which this year was celebrated on February 17.

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

A poem for Presidents Day about the roles of Washington and Lincoln in keeping the United States united:

The President was without precedent

At the time that he took on the post.

Equally homespun and elegant,

He struck the precisely right note.

Refusing the power of kings,

He yet understood that the State

Required what reverence brings:

A loyalty one can create.

And so he became The Great Leader,

The focus of wide adulation.

Yet only a one-time repeater,

He served not the man, but the nation.

He gave to the State what the states

Could only recopy writ small:

The sense of a Center the fates

Must bless for the good of us all.

He played well the hero who held

The Union together those years,

Until the still-thin mixture jelled,

And fact was more forceful than fears;

Till the other great president we

Now jam into one day for two

Kept the Union together and free,

His own blood the ultimate glue.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/17: Great Ends Demand Great Sacrifice

2/18: Greatness Is Effect Far More than Cause

2/19: Greatness Is the Child of Choice and Chance

2/20: The President Was Without Precedent