There Is No Greater Paradise

March 20, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins tomorrow, on March 21.

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A philosophical poem in which spring is a symbol of the eternal beauty that lies beneath the brutal wind and snow of the everyday world:

There is no greater paradise

Than simply being here.

The proof is in the agony

That willingly we bear.

A moment is beatitude;

A year, eternal grace;

A life, a window wide upon

The transcendental face.

Our gratitude's ubiquitous,

The stuff of every day,

The ground bass of an ecstasy

That never goes away.

And yet . . . and yet this wonder lies

Like grass beneath the snow:

Above we fear the brutal wind,

Eternal spring below.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

5/18: Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

5/19: There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

5/20: There Is No Greater Paradise

There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

March 19, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins on March 21.

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

A poem about death, grief, pain, and love:

There is in grief a saving grace,

A melody of love

So beautiful no angel could

A mourner's heart so move.

The pain is just a measure of

The value of the loss,

A gift that will remain a gift,

For life can be no less.

The love's not lost, nor will it be

Eroded by the wind,

But will become the soil in which

You plant new seeds each spring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

5/18: Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

5/19: There Is in Grief a Saving Grace

Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

March 18, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins on March 21.

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

A Mother’s Day poem in which spring melts the snowdrifts that cover the secrets of time:

Maybe time is like a snowdrift. Spring

Opens up its secrets. And perhaps

There you find what you've been looking for.

Harsh winters wait, of course, but there are more

Ecstasies than sorrows under wraps,

Retained in drifts till their awakening.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

5/18: Maybe Time Is like a Snowdrift

Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

March 17, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins on March 21.

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

A name poem for a child who is compared to dawn, spring, a rainbow, and a song:

Casey is a bit like dawn or spring,

A wonder, like a rainbow or a song.

So little flesh can so much pleasure bring!

Each of us may ponder right or wrong,

Yet here is the reply for which we long.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

5/17: Casey Is a Bit like Dawn or Spring

May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

March 16, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is spring, which begins on March 21.

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

A name poem wishing a young girl a beautiful youth:

May you have a warm and gentle spring,

A youth that winds through rainbow fields of flowers

Yearning for the beauty in your heart.

Let your memory hold these morning hours

Even as the last sweet thrushes sing,

Even as your yearning turns to art,

Nor shall you lose this grace to suffering.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Spring

5/16: May You Have a Warm and Gentle Spring

Fate Is a Consortium

March 15, 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 number poem about the nature of fate:

Fate is a consortium

In which participate

Fortune, will, inheritance,

Thoughts, dreams, loves, ideals.

Years provide a stadium

For a prolonged debate

In which each day one’s innocence

Versus one’s experience

Establishes what’s real.

© 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

5/15: Fate Is a Consortium

Nineteen Is a Moment for Reflection

March 14, 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 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