Poem of the Week

June 12: I Am the Happiest I’ve Ever Been

June 13: I Wish My Grandmother Were Here with Us

June 14: Love Can Be like Lightning

Saturday, June 13, 2020

I Wish My Grandmother Were Here with Us

June 13, 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 wedding poem recited just as the bride is about to toss the bouquet, wishing that her deceased grandmother could have attended the wedding:

I wish my grandmother were here with us

To see and celebrate this happy day.

I have her in the center of my heart

Just like this special rose in my bouquet.

Whoever catches this, please pass it on

To someone who is part of all you see,

To someone who has sculpted you with love,

Who means as much to you, as she to me.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

June 12: I Am the Happiest I’ve Ever Been

June 13: I Wish My Grandmother Were Here with Us

Friday, June 12, 2020

I Am the Happiest I've Ever Been

June 12, 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 from bride to groom anticipating the happiness to come:

I am the happiest I've ever been.

My loneliness will be forever gone.

When you're away, my empty feelings spin,

But after this, I'll always be at home.

You're the only person in the world

From whom I cannot stand to be apart.

But now in your devotion I'll be curled,

Just as you'll take shelter in my heart.

And so we two create a separate thing

In which we dwell mystically as one.

Neither you nor I will solo sing

Once this strange new harmony's begun.

How sweet to join with you in this new life,

Not only as myself, but as your wife.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

June 12: I Am the Happiest I’ve Ever Been

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

From My Present Mountaintop

June 10, 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 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.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

Monday, June 8, 2020

Time Rewrites the Contract Every Day

June 9, 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 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.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

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.

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This week’s theme: Weddings