After Love and Fear, There's Pride

July 12, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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A love poem from a spouse to his or her soldier posted far away:

After love and fear, there's pride;

After tears, the night;

After all the words are gone,

A chair with just one light.

After memories, the dream

That you will come home safe;

After sleep, another day

Of waiting for my life.

After hope, the happiness

Of thinking of your love;

After moments of despair,

A stone no thought can move.

After all the sacrifice,

The hunger and the pain,

The passions and the promises,

The losses and the gains,

There's nothing but my love for you,

Which waits upon the wind

To bring you from the barricades

That now you must defend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love and Separation

July 6: Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You

July 7: I Live Behind Forbidding Walls

July 8: Every Day I Think of You and Miss You

July 9: We Choose to Stay Together

July 10: In Many Ways, It’s as if I Last Saw You

July 11: I Miss You, Though I’m Not Quite Sure I Love You

July 12: After Love and Fear, There’s Pride

I Miss You, Though I'm Not Quite Sure I Love You

July 11, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A not-quite love poem about the first experience of missing someone:

I miss you, though I'm not quite sure I love you.

All I know is I like my music sad.

Long, empty days I'm pensive, thinking of you,

And while you're gone, I'm never really glad.

I think of love as some enormous sea,

Tempestuous or still, but never ending,

Something that once there will always be.

But that is not the message that I'm sending.

Missing you, for me, is something new:

An opening into my changing heart.

Love is something that I won't yet do,

But my feeling for you is a start.

Love, like prayer, should not be lightly said,

So I'll just say, "You're in my heart" instead!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love and Separation

July 6: Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You

July 7: I Live Behind Forbidding Walls

July 8: Every Day I Think of You and Miss You

July 9: We Choose to Stay Together

July 10: In Many Ways, It’s as if I Last Saw You

July 11: I Miss You, Though I’m Not Quite Sure I Love You

In Many Ways, It's as if I Last Saw You

July 10, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and love poem about remembering the last time one saw one’s lover:

In many ways, it's as if I last saw you

Recently, the image is so clear --

Even your eyes, hidden behind sunglasses on the pier;

Nor does it take much to restore you

Exactly, as if once again you were here.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love and Separation

July 6: Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You

July 7: I Live Behind Forbidding Walls

July 8: Every Day I Think of You and Miss You

July 9: We Choose to Stay Together

July 10: In Many Ways, It’s as if I Last Saw You

We Choose to Stay Together

July 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about reasons for staying together even when apart:

We choose to stay together

Even though we're far apart,

Joined by the strong tether

Of the longings of the heart.

We could not face the pain

That giving up would bring,

And so we must sustain our love

Despite our suffering.

You are my sovereign princess,

Whom I will not betray,

Nor be your subject any less

Because you're far away.

Though rivers run as swift as deer

And mountains turn to dust,

I'll wait as year gives way to year

Because I simply must.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love and Separation

July 6: Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You

July 7: I Live Behind Forbidding Walls

July 8: Every Day I Think of You and Miss You

July 9: We Choose to Stay Together

Every Day I Think of You and Miss You

July 8, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and love poem about missing one’s lover more as time goes by:

Every day I think of you and miss you,

More as time spreads open like a sea.

My pillow knows how much I long to kiss you,

As I must dream till you come back to me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love and Separation

July 6: Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You

July 7: I Live Behind Forbidding Walls

July 8: Every Day I Think of You and Miss You

I Live Behind Forbidding Walls

July 7, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the cruel irony of losing one’s lover by remaining honorable in his or her eyes:

I live behind forbidding walls

Made of adamantine words.

I could walk out when my heart calls,

But, ah! Here flight is just for birds.

It was my luck to find my love

Just after I had been engaged.

I would for love the whole Earth move,

Nor care what god might be enraged.

Cruel irony! That word I gave,

My lover looked to me to keep;

For love performs as we behave,

Nor do respect and trust come cheap.

And so I did what all thought right,

Though it was wrong, and honor kept.

I stayed an angel in his sight,

And ever since in silence wept.

Our love remains, though we're apart,

Unsullied as a distant star,

While I must walk within my heart,

Condemned as haunted spirits are.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love and Separation

July 6: Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You

July 7: I Live Behind Forbidding Walls

Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You

July 6, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem from a soldier to his or her loved one about bearing their separation:

Your heart broke when I said I had to leave you

To serve our country somewhere far away.

But every day tells me how much I love you,

And how I'll mend it once I'm home to stay.

For life is but a dream, and we the dreamers,

Making what we will of what we are.

When gates clang shut, we are our own redeemers,

As love leaves for us a door ajar.

So dream with me these empty months of sorrow

As we find ways to be together still.

No longing can be brighter than tomorrow,

Nor dream less certain than our strength of will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love and Separation

July 6: Your Heart Broke When I Said I Had to Leave You