Angels Have No ID Bracelets on Them

May 21, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about the difficulty of recognizing angels when you see them:

Angels have no ID bracelets on them.

No features glow with heavenly delight.

Given that their wings are made of feeling,

Each flying angel's given to concealing

Love's plumage like a rainbow in the night.

Shyness cloaks the halos that surround them.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/angel2.html. For more poems about angels, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/angelpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Angels

May 18: To Angels, Time Is like a Movie

May 19: Sing as Though a Choir of Angels Near

May 20: Harpies Are But Angels Who Are Harried

May 21: Angels Have No ID Bracelets on Them

Harpies Are But Angels Who Are Harried

May 20, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A humorous anniversary poem describing harried angels who have become harpies:

Harpies are but angels who are harried,

Angry, disappointed in their lot,

Prone to practice bickering when married,

Perhaps because they don't get what they've got.

Yet angels nonetheless, as pure inside

As deep and drifted, soot-encrusted snow,

Near the heart of God but for their pride,

No less loved, for all their squawk below.

If you find yourself pursued by harpies,

Vengeful just because . . . well, just because,

Elevate the angle of your worries,

Remembering that there are higher laws.

So may you love all beings, bright or small,

And be what you would have them be to all,

Regardless of what they might be to you.

You are the harpist, no matter what you do.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/harpie.html. For more poems about angels, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/angelpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Angels

May 18: To Angels, Time Is like a Movie

May 19: Sing as Though a Choir of Angels Near

May 20: Harpies Are But Angels Who Are Harried

Sing as Though a Choir of Angels Near

May 19, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An acrostic number and birthday poem for siXty-four (requiring an X), urging the person whose birthday it is to sing along with the angels:

Sing as though a choir of angels near

Immersed you in the beauty of their song!

Xylophones accompany the throng,

Though trumpets might be easier to hear.

Yet we must use the letters of the year.

Fear not that your voice will be too strong!

Offer them your music, loud and clear!

Understand that angels hold you dear,

Rejoicing as in joy you sing along.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/singas.html. For more poems about angels, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/angelpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Angels

May 18: To Angels, Time Is like a Movie

May 19: Sing as Though a Choir of Angels Near

To Angels, Time Is like a Movie

May 18, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem about how angels view our lives:

To angels, time is like a movie

Into which they fly,

Neither real nor unengrossing

As we live and die.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/toang2.html. For more poems about angels, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/angelpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Angels

May 18: To Angels, Time Is like a Movie

To Our Big Sister: Happy Graduation

May 17, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation since many colleges and universities have their graduations in May.

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

A graduation poem from younger sisters to the oldest one:

To our big sister: Happy Graduation!

Our guide and model, mentor, hero, friend;

Older, wiser, yet of our generation,

Understanding well the wayward wind!

Rejoice, then, in this moment of transition:

Becoming us no longer, moving on

Into adulthood, a sensitive condition,

Given that your childhood is gone.

Still may you be for us the pioneer!

In you we see ourselves as we will be,

Singing down the hallways year by year,

Taking care there'll always be a "we."

Even as you lead, clear-eyed or blind,

Remember that we're following behind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/toourb.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

May 11: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 12: Congratulations on Your Graduation

May 13: Graduates Become the Cover Story

May 14: Happy Graduation

May 15: Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 16: To My “Sis” from “Little Sis” (2)

May 17: To Our Big Sister: Happy Graduation

To My "Sis," from "Lil Sis" (2)

May 16, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation since many colleges and universities have their graduations in May.

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

A graduation poem from a younger sister to an older one:

To my "Sis," from "Lil Sis,"

On her graduation day:

Maybe life will separate us,

Yet we'll always be best friends.

So may love, until life ends,

In joy or sorrow not forsake us,

Sunshine on the darkest day.

Though there's a frequency I'll miss,

Each breath of peace that fortune sends

Recalls a bond time can't betray.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/tomys3.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

May 11: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 12: Congratulations on Your Graduation

May 13: Graduates Become the Cover Story

May 14: Happy Graduation

May 15: Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 16: To My “Sis” from “Little Sis” (2)

Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 15, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation since many colleges and universities have their graduations in May.

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

A graduation poem about the need for lifelong learning:

Grateful for what we have learned,

Ready now to start

A life in which what we will earn

Depends upon the heart.

Underneath our new degrees

Are habits, knowledge, skill,

That are essential qualities

In anyone who will

One day look back upon this day

Needing learning still.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/grate2.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

May 11: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 12: Congratulations on Your Graduation

May 13: Graduates Become the Cover Story

May 14: Happy Graduation

May 15: Grateful for What We Have Learned