For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

March 27, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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A number and 50^th birthday poem of thanks for a good parent:

For your fiftieth birthday let us sing!

In celebration let your loved ones dance!

Fair seedtime had our souls within your heart,

Taking joy from lucky circumstance.

You gave to us a gentle, loving spring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

3/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

3/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

3/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

3/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

3/27: For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

Birthdays Are the Tolling of

March 26, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday invitation in the form of a poem:

Birthdays are the tolling of

A bell that marks the coming of

A time of festive joy and love,

A time to treasure life and love.

So come and celebrate with me

The circumstance that makes me, me:

The moment when I came to be,

And what I now have come to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

5/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

5/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

5/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

Happy Birthday, Darling

March 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday poem to a former lover who is now with someone else:

Happy birthday, darling!

Although you're not with me.

Right now you are with someone else

Temporarily.

I know I am the wild cat

Who'll get you in the end,

Not only your hot lover, but

Your best and truest friend.

So have a happy birthday

And remember my sweet kiss.

It's waiting for you when you turn

To me, your choice for bliss.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

5/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

5/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

March 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday poem to a reluctant celebrant:

For you, my love, the happiest of birthdays!

Let this be a day your soul shall sing,

Rejoicing in the pleasure that this one day

Must to all who love you surely bring!

You, who give so much, should now be taking

What affection we poor souls can show.

Understand this little fuss we’re making

Is only what mere mortals can bestow,

Touched by love far deeper than we know.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

5/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

Birthdays Are an Annual Excuse

March 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and birthday poem from one sibling to another about having the opportunity to say “I Love You”:

Birthdays are an annual excuse,

A way of saying things we ought to say.

Relatively few can sing their love

Unless they do it on some special day.

Hearts are shy, and words of little use.

But now I want to tell you that I love you,

Open up my heart and say the things

Siblings seldom say to one another

'Cause of the embarrassment it brings.

How lovely that I can say this to you!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

Let Me Steal You from the One You Love

March 22, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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A love poem in which the lover asks the loved one to try him or her out:

Let me steal you from the one you love
In hopes that as time passes you'll love me.
So deeply does your smile my heart move
That merely touching you is ecstasy.
Normally, such crimes are not my style,
Nor would I infidelity propose;
But I love you so much I can't revile
Anything that some slight hope bestows.
Let me show you how I'll care for you,
How good it feels to have me at your side,
How spring eternal I'll make ever new,
And every want or passing whim provide.
Try me out. I promise you'll be mine
Once you see how bright my sun can shine.

© 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

5/21: Twenty-Eight’s a Rose in Perfect Bloom

5/22: Let Me Steal You from the One You Love

Twenty-Eight's a Rose in Perfect Bloom

March 21, 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 today, March 21.

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

A number poem about a young girl filled with delight in life: 

Twenty-eight's a rose in perfect bloom

Weathering a mild, sunny spring.

Each day sustains a rapture deep and blue,

No hint of ultimate darkness seeping through,

Though roses are well-versed in suffering.

Yet now, for happiness, there's ample room.

Even mystic lovers of the night

In darkness feel the same rhapsodic madness

Given all who keep the sky in view,

Heaven light or dark, in joy or sadness,

The lovely rose afire with delight.

© 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

5/21: Twenty-Eight’s a Rose in Perfect Bloom