Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

April 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 Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

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

A Passover poem about the need for love whether with or without faith:

Perhaps there is a purpose to all things,

A great intention that one cannot see.

So might one bear one’s pain more patiently

Since all that is, from love’s vast bosom springs.

Or, perhaps, one lives more skeptically,

Viewing without filter what life brings.

Each then must love, for love to all souls sings,

Redeeming with its grace life’s mystery.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

4/7: Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

April 6, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

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

A poem for both Passover and Easter to the child of a mixed marriage who must keep both traditions:

Praised be those who value their traditions

And celebrate the holidays each year.

So might a family through repeat renditions

Strengthen bonds that else might disappear.

Over time, families tend to scatter.

Vast distances require an occasion

Embodying the things in life that matter:

Roots, love, faith, grace, goodness, joy, relation.

Even so, how does one manage to

Accommodate two separate sets of roots?

Since trees have only one, what does one do

To grow up tall and sturdy and bear fruit?

Embrace your fortune. You do not need to choose.

Roots joined within a willing heart will fuse.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

Thank You for Loving Us

April 5, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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

A thank-you poem from adopted siblings to their adoptive parents:

Thank you for loving us,

Having us in.

All you have given

Now we hold within,

Kids out in limbo

You made your own,

Or else we might still be

Unloved and alone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

3/31: For All That You Have Given Me

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

4/2: Love Has Never Been About the Genes

4/3: Happiness Lies Just This Side of Heartache

4/4: Happy Birthday, Mother of

4/5: Thank You for Loving Us

Happy Birthday, Mother of

April 4, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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

A birthday poem from an adopted daughter to her newly-discovered birth mother:

Happy birthday, mother of

A dream undreamed, unveiled at last,

Portion of a past unpassed,

Part I'd not partaken of,

Yet one in which my self was cast.

Before I knew of you, I knew

Inside myself your whispered word,

Remembering what I'd never heard,

The me that was exactly you.

How glad I am that we now share

Directly that long love unseen,

A gift from you that's always been,

Yet now for me is always there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

3/31: For All That You Have Given Me

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

4/2: Love Has Never Been About the Genes

4/3: Happiness Lies Just This Side of Heartache

4/4: Happy Birthday, Mother of

Happiness Lies Just This Side of Heartache

April 3, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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

A Father’s Day poem from an adopted child to his or her adoptive father:

Happiness lies just this side of heartache,

As both are set aflame by one desire.

Perhaps one would best never light that fire,

Pursuing pleasure purely for its own sake.

Yet joy can be as fragile as a snowflake,

Full as oceans, brutal as barbed wire.

All your love is all that you require,

The grace that inundates the granite heartbreak.

How beautiful to take on such a burden,

Entering into contract with the void,

Responsible to some judgmental stranger,

'Ere meeting, for the seedtime of its soul!

Sing, then, of a quest that gains no guerdon,

Dearer far than pleasures now enjoyed,

A journey arduous and full of danger,

Yet sacred for the gift that is its goal.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

3/31: For All That You Have Given Me

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

4/2: Love Has Never Been About the Genes

4/3: Happiness Lies Just This Side of Heartache

Love Has Never Been About the Genes

April 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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

A Mother’s Day poem about the wolf who fostered Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome:

Love has never been about the genes,

But about beauty, and unforgiving grace.

The wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus

Had nothing in her heart but wrenching joy.

Oh, yes, of course, love also is a means,

Serving the survival of the race.

But more, it is a longing that redeems us,

An end itself no ending can destroy.

And so it is with mothers who love children

Not of their flesh, but of their nurturing.

The origin fades, the years of love remain

Vivid in the background of a life.

For Rome, the wolf will always be its kindred,

Ancestor who took fate's offering

And made it hers through sacrifice and pain,

The legacy that would her long days light.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

3/31: For All That You Have Given Me

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

4/2: Love Has Never Been About the Genes

Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

April 1, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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

A goodbye poem to a foster child who has to move on to a new foster home:

Goodbye, my darling foster child,

On to another home!

Open doors remain behind.

Do but turn, and you will find

Bestride your heart, my own.

You may the wind, unwept and wild,

Embrace, but not alone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

3/31: For All That You Have Given Me

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child