There Is No Future Good Enough

June 26, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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A graduation poem about idealistic hopes and dreams:

There is no future good enough

For what we hope to be,

Nor world with windows wide enough

For what we hope to see.

Yet when we turn to compromise

The dreams with which we wake,

We'll glimpse behind a memory

Which we cannot forsake.

How beautiful this time of youth

That is so quickly gone!

We came to learn together, and

In moments we are done.

How long we will remember this

Brief time when life would wait

Upon the true perception that

Comes always far too late.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 24: Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 25: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

June 26: There Is No Future Good Enough

I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

June 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem from a deceased parent to his or her child at graduation:

I would be proud of you, could I attend,

Would I now know the things I'll never know,

Could I have watched you come to comprehend

The wonder of the world in which you grow.

Do not think I did not think of you,

Imagining the beauty of this day,

For I was at your graduation, too,

Though long ago, and in a different way.

Life can be full, no matter short or long,

As long as love can fill it with its grace.

And I have felt such pride, and love so strong,

That you will live your life in my embrace.

So of the pride today I claim my share:

Though I am not, I know that I am there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 24: Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 25: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A graduation poem about the apparent unreality of the moment:

Graduation grabs you from behind.

Reality seems suddenly unreal,

A timeless moment somehow trapped in time,

Drowning in a feeling you can't feel.

Ultimately, when the day is over

And you are left alone with who you are,

The moment will be something to remember,

In which you feel your feelings from afar.

Only now too much is happening.

Nor can you keep your heart from wandering.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 24: Graduation Grabs You from Behind

Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A graduation poem about the ambivalent feelings that come with graduation day:

Glad to graduate and sad to leave.

Ready to go, reluctant to depart.

Anxious to learn what more we can achieve.

Divided down the center of the heart.

Underneath our premature nostalgia,

Avidly we dream of things to come.

The moment is a multilayered mixture

In which each part is greater than the sum.

Our longing is the source of memory.

Nor will we soon forget when we were we.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 22, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A graduation poem about the power and endurance of memories:

Give a little thought to years gone by,

Remembering the time we spent together.

A moment, though long vanished, lasts forever,

Determining the tilt of every why.

Understand that nothing will be lost.

As we go, we also will remain,

Taking with us what we leave behind.

In each of us today a border's crossed,

Offering a past we will retain

Now that we'll be scattered to the wind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

You Are Our Knight in Shining Armor

June 21, 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 Wedding or Father’s Day poem to a (prospective) stepfather:

You are our knight in shining armor,

Pilgrim of our plea,

The Atlas for our wounded world,

Our rescuer at sea.

You are the pillar of our hopes,

The deep bass of our song,

The strength that underlies our strength,

The calm for which we long.

You came into our house of dreams

And turned it into truth,

Entering at just the point

Where yearning shatters youth.

What could motivate someone

To bear another's load

But that most beautiful of lights,

The inner lamp of love.

© 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

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

June 21: You Are Our Knight in Shining Armor

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.

© 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

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