Give Yourselves the Gift of Harmony

June 11, 2020

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

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

A name and wedding poem about how a wedding is both the culmination of changes that have already occurred and the start of something new:

Give yourselves the gift of harmony

In being each for each a loving other.

Underneath the passion to be free

Lies the deeper longing for a lover.

In loving well, you make yourselves a wellspring,

A source of life to all who would draw near,

Needing but a glance to make the heart sing,

Affluent in all that makes life clear.

And so today you choose what you have chosen,

No longer waiting for what you've become,

Destined for a mystic moment, frozen

Just where time by longing is undone.

All you are is now a part of two,

Severing the old world from the new,

Opening a vista rich with love.

Nor will the grace of life pass by unmoved.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Weddings

June 8: Take a Little Time to Feel Your Love

June 9: Time Rewrites the Contract Every Day

June 10: From My Present Mountaintop

June 11: Give Yourselves the Gift of Harmony

From My Present Mountaintop

June 10, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A wedding poem that is also a thank-you poem to parents who helped raise an out-of-wedlock child:

From my present mountaintop

I look back whence I came:

An unexpected passage through

Some bleak and rough terrain.

I look on what you did for me:

The years of borrowed days,

The sacrifice of liberty

That only love repays;

The grace with which you gave yourselves,

Though not without great cost,

Not blaming me for fortune's gift

Nor counting what was lost.

I feel a flood of gratitude

Like sunlight through my heart,

A light that lights the candle of

The life about to start.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Weddings

June 8: Take a Little Time to Feel Your Love

June 9: Time Rewrites the Contract Every Day

June 10: From My Present Mountaintop

Time Rewrites the Contract Every Day

June 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and wedding poem about the need to make the choice to love every day:

Time rewrites the contract every day.

In marriage one is never done with choosing,

For one is ever free beyond refusing,

Free at every moment, come what may.

A vow to love creates a sheltered bay,

Not free of wind and wave, but still a mooring,

Yielding anchorage well worth securing,

A safe, serene, and gentle place to stay.

Now choose it, choose its joy again, again.

Daily make the precious choice to love.

Make your will the sun upon your tides.

In choosing love, you will that joy sustain,

Knowing well the winds that in you move,

Embracing well the loved one by your side.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Weddings

June 8: Take a Little Time to Feel Your Love

June 9: Time Rewrites the Contract Every Day

Take a Little Time to Feel Your Love

June 8, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and wedding poem about how through love one can experience a bit of eternity:

Take a little time to feel your love.

It’s bashful, awkward, gentle, quiet, shy.

Feel it furtively within you move;

Feel its wanting without need for why.

All you are and have will disappear,

No more than well-worn whispers in the wind.

Yet in your love you are forever here,

A bit of God that time cannot rescind.

Nothing in this world can match its glory.

Destiny must wait upon its will.

More than chance or fate, it writes your story,

Infinity that’s yearning, yearning still.

Know your love’s the very best of you,

Embracing it each passing day anew.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Weddings

June 8: Take a Little Time to Feel Your Love

Happiness Hangs Loosely on Your Lives

June 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 anniversaries.

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

A forty-third anniversary poem about the creation and maintenance of happiness:

Happiness hangs loosely on your lives,

A garment that you wear with fortune's blessing.

Praised be both the wisdom and the will

Pressed between the pages of your days,

Years and years of choices amid chances.

For now, this day, the rhapsody revives

Old memories of love beyond expressing,

Returned as music, passionate and still,

That turns and turns with wonder as it plays,

Yearning that refuses trite romances.

There is a place in all love that survives --

Home, where nakedness needs no undressing,

In which, with candor and sufficient skill,

Reason turns away its clear-eyed gaze,

Deferring to the heart, which weeps and dances.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love

June 2: Fifty Years Is Really Not Enough

June 3: Forty-Two Years Is like a Song

June 4: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

June 5: Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine

June 6: Happiness Comes from Choosing Happiness

June 7: Happiness Hangs Loosely on Your Lives

Happiness Comes from Choosing Happiness

June 6, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A seventeenth anniversary poem about the choice of happiness and love even in the face of adversity:

Happiness comes from choosing happiness,

As love's the consequence of choosing love.

Perhaps one’s angel shall the weaker prove,

Pinned by one whose fortune it must bless.

Yet some must make their choice under duress,

Salvaging the unspent sweetness of

Each moment that across their lives might move,

Vivid in the wake of its caress.

Endurance is no name for an embrace,

Nor is one's joy much kindled by one's fury.

There is but death and illness in the offing;

Eventually, all life ends in pain.

Even so, love touches life with grace,

Not vested in the verdict of the jury,

Transforming what would else have little meaning,

Happily engaged again, again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love

June 2: Fifty Years Is Really Not Enough

June 3: Forty-Two Years Is like a Song

June 4: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

June 5: Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine

June 6: Happiness Comes from Choosing Happiness

Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine

June 5, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A first anniversary poem about the eternal will to love:

Frequently one finds a little sunshine

In places where the forecast calls for rain,

Restoring one to life and love again,

Suddenly bursting through the broken cloud line.

There is, when one is walking up an incline,

A source of strength no apathy can drain

Nor gradient preclude through pitch or pain,

Nestled in the will beneath one's timeline:

Interior even to one's soul,

Vaster than the panoply of night,

Embedded in the very act of being,

Resident in every thought and word.

Silence is the longing of the whole,

A yearning absolute and infinite,

Revelation of eternal feeling

Yet dancing motionless to songs unheard.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

June 1: Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love

June 2: Fifty Years Is Really Not Enough

June 3: Forty-Two Years Is like a Song

June 4: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

June 5: Frequently One Finds a Little Sunshine