America Can Never Be America

July 5, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about calculus and dreams:

America can never be America.

Maybe no nation can ever be America.

Each nation can approach it fervently,

Reaching halfway, then halfway, then halfway.

In approaching dreams, there is no calculus

Calculating how one might finally reach one.

A good thing. Calculus is the death of dreams.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 30: America Is on a Long Journey

July 1: America Is Not an Exclusive Club

July 2: America’s Is the World’s Eventual State

July 3: America’s Built on Stolen Land

July 4: America: An Ideal That’s Less than Ideal

July 5: America Can Never Be America

America: An Ideal That's Less than Ideal

July 4, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about the nature of ideals:

America: An ideal that’s less than ideal.

Maybe all ideals are less than ideal,

Except those that have never been realized.

Reason is a house that’s never been lived in,

In which the furnishings are always new.

Children have never tested the bedsprings or pillows.

Adults have never soiled the backsplash with their greed and passion.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 30: America Is on a Long Journey

July 1: America Is Not an Exclusive Club

July 2: America’s Is the World’s Eventual State

July 3: America’s Built on Stolen Land

July 4: America: An Ideal That’s Less than Ideal

America's Built on Stolen Land

July 3, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about America’s debt of sin:

America’s built on stolen land

Made profitable by stolen labor.

Equity with interest should,

Reinvested properly,

Irrigate urban deserts,

Create rural gardens,

Amortize a debt of sin.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 30: America Is on a Long Journey

July 1: America Is Not an Exclusive Club

July 2: America’s Is the World’s Eventual State

July 3: America’s Built on Stolen Land

America's Is the World's Eventual State

July 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about America as a multi-national nation:

America’s is the world’s eventual state:

Multi-national, a nation of nations,

Enduring the backlash, the hatred, the political divide,

Reaffirming the oneness of humanity,

Inching forward, falling back, inching forward,

Crawling, like a soldier under fire,

As ever towards hope, towards acceptance, towards beauty, towards love.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 30: America Is on a Long Journey

July 1: America Is Not an Exclusive Club

July 2: America’s Is the World’s Eventual State

America Is Not an Exclusive Club

July 1, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about America and immigration:

America is not an exclusive club.

Membership ought not be difficult.

Each gathering should be a kaleidoscope of colors,

Robes, tongues, tastes, music, poetry, faith, and song.

In the end, all rivers flow into America’s sea,

Coming together to fulfill the tidal dream,

As love, over generations, unites us all.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 30: America Is on a Long Journey

July 1: America Is Not an Exclusive Club

America Is on a Long Journey

June 30, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about America’s long journey towards dreams:

America is on a long journey.

Mountainous dreams are its destination.

Each hovers hazily on the horizon.

Remember that the end is not the road.

If the present is hot and dusty, don’t settle for it.

Come with us further down the road. You’ll see

A magnificent mountain looming like a song.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 30: America Is on a Long Journey

America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 29, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about America and hope:

America is built on a foundation of hope.

Maybe hope is the best foundation to build on –

Elastic, light weight, lovely, strong, enduring.

Remember to lay aside resentment and fear.

In each of us goodness awaits the touch of love.

Come to the meeting with an open heart,

And you will be met with an open heart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope