My God Was the Future

March 7, 2020

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

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An epitaph for a former American Communist who defines his legacy as a passion for good:

My God was the future. I'm with Him now,

As inchoate as we must always be,

Xeroxing my position on eternity.

Go find me in the future of your dreams,

Or in the box wherein you hide your zeal;

Remember me when fear says what is real,

Dictating truths to which your hopes must bow.

Only fierce passion a misplaced heart redeems:

Nothing less shall be my legacy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

5/5: Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

5/6: Do Believe I’ll Never Leave You

5/7: My God Was the Future

Do Believe I'll Never Leave You

March 6, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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An epitaph for Dada, who will always be near his children:

Do believe I'll never leave you:

Always I'll be in your heart.

Don't forget my soul is near you,

And we'll never be apart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

5/5: Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

5/6: Do Believe I’ll Never Leave You

Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

March 5, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An epitaph for a sportswriter who helped integrate baseball:

Life blessed me with a sunny disposition

Even as I lived through terrible storms.

Sport was my passion; justice was my mission.

The world, I thought, was something one reforms.

Embrace it, then, with all your warmth and joy!

Rebel, as I did, for, and not against,

Resolving to create, not to destroy,

Open-armed and loving, not incensed.

Delight, exuberance, a child's wonder --

Not naively did I these display.

Even though the wide world split asunder,

Yet one needs to live and love and play.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

5/5: Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

Let Others Speak of Hell -- I Speak of Courage

March 4, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An epitaph for a woman who endured her life-long mental illness with both courage and delight:

Let others speak of Hell -- I speak of courage:

In one there's inspiration for the other.

Nor need despair of Heaven one's life ravage:

Demand enough of Hell, and it rolls over.

All I suffered was what I endured,

For me a source of pride as well as pain.

Restored by love, I never could be cured:

Ill for life, but not alive in vain.

Enter bravely into my delight,

Dreadful though might be my manic mind.

More is known by feeling than by sight

As even darkness has its own sweet light;

Nor did I die but by my own design.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

5/4: Let Others Speak of Hell – I Speak of Courage

Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

March 3, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An epitaph about love as a continuation of life after death:

Just as love in life can lessen pain,

Even more it soothes the pain of death.

For you our love must come and go like rain;

For me it is my heart, my word, my breath.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

5/3: Just as Love in Life Can Lessen Pain

Be Patient with Life

March 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An epitaph in which the deceased asks loved ones to remember him with joy:

Be patient with life, despite its cruelty.

Often it seems careless of our pain,

But just as often brings us hope again.

Remember, I wanted happiness for you.

Under every foolish word this still was true.

Be happy, then, without, as you would with me.

In your life many sweet events remain.

Not in anguish, but in joy remember me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

5/2: Be Patient with Life

Samantha Is a Lover of the Mist

March 1, 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.

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A name poem for a shy, memorable woman known by few:

Samantha is a lover of the mist:

An exotic orchid seen by very few.

Most stray along a path, content to view

A narrow swath of the glories that exist.

No one who sees Samantha soon forgets

The quiet dreaming of her careful words,

Her iconoclastic thoughts, like small, bright birds

Alight on thick, dark tangles of regrets.

© 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

2/27: Veronica’s an Image of the Truth

2/28: Angela Retains Her Cherub Face

2/29: Jeanne Dances in the Doorway of Her Home

5/1: Samantha Is a Lover of the Mist