Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

June 19, 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 about how each father must step into the role of his father and recreate the myth of home for his children:

Home is a myth that must be recreated

As every generation comes of age,

Placed by their own children on the stage

Precisely when their fantasies have faded.

Yet one is more than amply compensated

For playing well the well-wrought saint or sage,

As love wells up beneath the camouflage,

The truth that makes the myth immaculate.

How beautiful it is to be a father!

Emperor forever of a dream

Repeated through the labyrinths of longing

'Mid memories more true than what has been.

Sing, then, of myths that tie one to another

Deep beneath the bulwarks of belonging,

As tales begun before the words begin,

Yet fabricate the worlds in which words mean.

© 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

June 17: Happy Father’s Day to a Father-to-Be

June 18: Happy Father’s Day to One Whose Love

June 19: Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

Happy Father's Day to One Whose Love

June 18, 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 to a father who is reluctant to be celebrated:

Happy Father's Day to one whose love

Asks nothing more than that it more might give!

Praised be those whose self-love selfless proves;

Praised be those who by such pleasure live.

Years of longing find no better plight,

For everything that is, is ever here.

A love that gives, gives unalloyed delight,

Taking in more breath than it can bear.

How lovely, then, to give this day to you,

Embracing who would rather us embrace,

Rejoicing in the ballet old anew,

'Twixt give and give a shy and awkward grace!

So may you ever be on Father's Day,

Despite yourself, the hero of the play,

Accepting from your loved ones what you would

Yet give yourself to them, if you but could.

© 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

June 17: Happy Father’s Day to a Father-to-Be

June 18: Happy Father’s Day to One Whose Love

Happy Father's Day to a Father-to-Be

June 17, 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 to an expectant father:

Happy Father's Day to a father-to-be!

A little kidney bean has sprouted limbs,

Put forth fingers, toes, while silent hymns

Praise life with music none will hear but she.

You'll never relish more such mystery --

Full of the radiance with which life brims

As you await its needs, its wants, its whims,

The timbre of its love, its will-to-be.

How beautiful, this time of expectation!

Each moment silent in the packed, hushed hall,

Reverberating with the sounds of waiting

'Ere the outstretched arms begin to beat.

So beautiful, this barely breathed elation!

Days go on, but underneath them all

A hunger that there is no hope of sating

Yearns to kiss two tiny, wrinkled feet.

© 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

June 17: Happy Father’s Day to a Father-to-Be

Happiness Is Served by Celebration

June 16, 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 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

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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 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