Alain Is an Absolute Delight

July 28, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A name poem for someone gorgeous, buff, and funny who devotes himself to serving those in need:

Alain is an absolute delight --

Like a saint who's gorgeous, buff, and funny,

Always so considerate and sunny,

Intentionally tuning in to blight

Nestled in the eaves of someone's night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 28: Alain Is an Absolute Delight

Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 27, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A poem about the joy of being an instrument of God’s love:

Let there be joy, always joy in giving,

In serving those who cannot serve themselves.

There is no better gift one gets from living

Than that sweet will that from the heart upwells.

Let there be pleasure in giving others pleasure,

Enjoyment in giving others joy,

Sheer happiness, beyond all one might measure,

In toiling in a loving God's employ.

So may we be the instruments of love,

The flesh of God's will working in the world,

Each a thread within the banner of

Redemption, to the winds of time unfurled.

Sacrifice is then no sacrifice,

Obligation then no obligation,

For what is gained has neither peer nor price,

There being none remotely in relation.

How might one find sanctity in service,

Each menial task a grateful act of prayer?

Perhaps if one believed that life was senseless,

Old folk were simply woe one wouldn't share.

Only love gives dignity to all,

Restoring faith in those who heed its call.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

These Seven Months That We Have Been Together

July 26, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A seven-month anniversary and thank-you poem about the beauty of the couple’s time together:

These seven months that we have been together

Have been the loveliest of all my life.

All moments dance within your balmy weather,

Nor could my heart be anything but blithe,

Knowing I have all that I desire.

You've chosen me, with all the world to choose,

On whom your glance falls like a holy fire,

Undoing all that would such joy refuse.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

July 24: Your Birthday Was the Day We First Were Us

July 25: Twenty-Five Years on the Farm

July 26: These Seven Months That We Have Been Together

Twenty-Five Years on the Farm

July 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A 25^th anniversary poem for a farm couple who has stayed true to each other through a hard life:

Twenty-five years on the farm

Will drain the strength out of

Every loud, shrill false alarm

Near drowned out by love.

Through years of hot, dry winds, and through

Years of steady rain,

Fortune has been good to you

In reaping what remains.

For you have kept your first love true

Through much hard work and pain,

Here now to choose again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

July 24: Your Birthday Was the Day We First Were Us

July 25: Twenty-Five Years on the Farm

Your Birthday Was the Day We First Were Us

July 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem for an anniversary that coincides with a birthday:

Your birthday was the day we first were us,

And so for me it is a day twice blessed.

I celebrate my having you twice over:

First, that you exist, then that you're mine.

I never felt a love so free and fine,

So much a part of me, I’m but a lover,

So rich and full, it crowds out all the rest,

All time before I turned from me to us.

I am so joyful to be part of us,

To be at home with you and not a guest,

To celebrate this day and not another,

To share with you a common boundary line.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There BeAngels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

July 24: Your Birthday Was Day We First Were Us

Two Years We've Been Together

July 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A second anniversary poem about how to deal with marital ups and downs:

Two years we've been together, and

We're very much in love.

Of course we've had our minor wars,

Yet none would heartfelt prove.

Each time we think: What if else?

A wind goes through our souls,

Rippling through our tangled sheets,

Sweeping out our woes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

You've Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 22, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A second anniversary poem about what a wife loves most about her husband:

You've been with me two sweet and awesome years:

The best years of my life; that is, so far.

You are my passion and my guiding star,

Whose steady radiance calms my foolish fears.

How easily you wipe away my tears!

How bright you make my days! How good you are!

I love the way you leave yourself ajar,

Letting in my anger till it clears.

I love the way you play with little kids,

A father in the rough, yet soft and kind.

I love the way you laugh with warmth and ease.

I love the way you close your eyes, the lids

Shutting out the worlds you'd leave behind,

Your head upon the pillow of my knees.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years