Nineteen Is a Moment for Reflection

March 14, 2020

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

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A number poem about a time of life when one seems able to choose one’s fate:

Nineteen is a moment for reflection:

Instead of rushing on, one stops and waits.

Now one contemplates a range of fates,

Even some quite likely for rejection.

The future is a vista, vast and teeming,

Eloquent of latitude and choice.

Eventually, one must find one's voice;

Now, however, there is room for dreaming.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

5/12: Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

5/13: Destinée Finds Destiny Appealing

5/14: Nineteen Is a Moment for Reflection

Destinee Finds Destiny Appealing

March 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 fate.

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A philosophical name poem for Destinee, who runs smack into her own destiny:

Destinee finds destiny appealing

Even as she knows that she is free.

Success then brings her to the stained-glass ceiling

Telling her what is, or not, to be.

Immensities return her quiet keening,

Nor more nor less than what she knows is true:

Eventually, she must surrender meaning,

Exactly as it was her fate to do.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

5/12: Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

5/13: Destinee Finds Destiny Appealing

Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

March 12, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A thank-you poem to someone who has been like a guardian angel:

Thank you for being our guardian angel!

Having come to our rescue in our time of need.

Angels love people as parents love children,

Nor could we a better have found of the breed,

Knowing how hard such a one is to wangle!

Yet you, with your wings and your halo half-hidden,

On us have descended with glory unbidden,

Undoing the darkness our fate had decreed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

5/12: Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel

Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

March 11, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A philosophical number poem about an infinite love that enables one to open oneself to fate:

Forty-six has much to celebrate,

Open as she is to wind and song,

Riding what rough beasts might come along,

Traveling through the wilderness of fate

Yet knowing that the soul is ever young.

So may she weather well the storms of state

In love that lies beyond all joy and longing,

Xerox of the unknown infinite.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

5/11: Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate

Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

March 10, 2020

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

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

A philosophical name poem for someone who has had to struggle with the burden of a chronically ill older sister:

Perhaps you think you never will recover.

Abysses in your heart disturb your pleasure.

Underneath each sunlit ecstasy

Lie shadows of the fortunes of another,

A fate that's both your burden and your treasure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

5/10: Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover

For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

March 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A philosophical number poem for someone who, like a seed, has been blown by the wind to a distant patch of ground.

For what have you arrived upon this shore?

In search of what did you once set your sail?

For you there always has been something more

That ought to for some greater good prevail.

Yet life so often tells a different tale.

So are we like seeds upon the wind,

Each planted where we fall by willing chance,

Vested in a fate we can’t rescind,

Enveloped in the soil of circumstance,

Now blooming, if we would, as passion grants.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Fate

5/9: For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore

Undo Me, My Garments Are in Pain

March 8, 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 an uncle who lives on in others:

Undo me, my garments are in pain.

Now I must crawl naked to your heart.

Can I not find there a place to lie?

Lovers' kisses linger when they part.

Even so, shall I with you remain.

Life's not flesh, nor does it end with death.

Its force, still radiant, fills each empty place.

Gone the star, the light still strikes the eye;

Gone the flesh, the soul retains its grace.

Your life, your love, your joy--these are 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

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

5/8: Undo Me, My Garments Are in Pain