Poem of the Week

June 19: Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

June 20: I Want to Say How Proud I Am of You

June 21: You Are Our Knight in Shining Armor

Friday, June 19, 2020

I Want to Say How Proud I Am of You

June 20, 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 from a son to a father who has finally broken free of his addiction:

I want to say how proud I am of you

That you have broken free of your addiction.

It's something I don't know that I could do

Were I so sorely tried by your affliction.

My years of growing up were on my own,

As you were in the belly of your beast,

The two of us indifferent and alone,

Most in need of love while loving least.

How sad! That you and I have lost those years:

I, of childhood, and you, of your only child.

But now's the time for joy and not for tears,

For you are well, and we are reconciled.

Whatever life may bring or time may prove,

Know that you will always have my love.

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 19: Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

June 20: I Want to Say How Proud I Am of You

Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

June 19, 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 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.

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 19: Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

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.

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

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.

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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.

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

Monday, June 15, 2020

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.

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day