Happiness Is Served by Celebration

June 16, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

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A Father’s Day poem celebrating uncles:

Happiness is served by celebration,

As one could use reminders of one's worth.

Praised be days devoted to relation,

Preserving ties of friendship, love, and birth.

Yet uncles have no day, so this must do --

Father's Day, on which we recognize

All close male relatives, so, too,

They might see themselves through our eyes.

Here's to you, then, an uncle who plays well

Each well-considered role in which you're cast,

Restoring far more faith than you can tell --

'Tis the smallest gestures that will last.

So may you enjoy your destined part,

Devoted to the duties of the heart,

An uncle, near or distant, who remains

Yet one of those whose love a child sustains.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 15: Freedom Is a Casualty of Loving

June 16: Happiness Is Served by Celebration

Freedom Is a Casualty of Loving

June 15, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

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

A Father’s Day poem about what one it takes to be a good father.

Freedom is a casualty of loving,

As one must freely choose to be unfree,

Taking is, instead of what might be,

Holding onto essence for dear meaning.

Each father ought to be the nearest mountain,

Rock-solid, unmoving in his passion,

'Twixt wind and world the will no will can fashion,

Sustaining innocence through sheer intention.

Depths are in more places than below,

As those who dive for melody well know,

Yielding memories sunlit and certain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 15: Freedom Is a Casualty of Loving

Love Can Be like Lightning

June 14, 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 about how love changes with marriage no matter how it first appears:

Love can be like lightning: all of a sudden

Electric shock goes tingling to the toes.

In some, however, it can come quite slowly,

Spilling over sandbags as it grows.

However love first shows itself, a marriage

Alters all its labyrinthine ways:

Seismic shifts deep down restructure mountains;

Homes jiggle as some expectation sways.

All you have and are is now together.

Love shapes not just your feelings but your lives.

Each must choose each day to love the other,

Needing more than life what love decides.

© 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

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

I Wish My Grandmother Were Here with Us

June 13, 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 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.

© 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

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

June 13: I Wish My Grandmother Were Here with Us

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.

© 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

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

Give Yourselves the Gift of Harmony

June 11, 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 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