Your Friendship Is the Sky Above My Home

August 14, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A friendship poem about why we need friends:

Your friendship is the sky above my home,
The crystal air I breathe, through which I see.
I can't believe how much you mean to me.
Without you with me, time would turn to stone.

I don't know why I need you so, or how
I know so absolutely I'll be there
In times your wounded heart can hardly bear.
I only know this truth is with me now.

Why is it in our lives that we need friends
To be awake and fully what we are?
Alone we dream but never cross the bar;
With you I share a grace that never ends.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Friendship
August 10: We’re Never Completely in One Place
August 11: You Have a Smile That Lights the World
August 12: I Would Not Ask You to Forget
August 13: Daryl Rose and Anthony Are Friends
August 14: Your Friendship Is the Sky Above My Home

Daryl Rose and Anthony Are Friends

August 13, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name and friendship poem about a couple that chose friendship over marriage:

Daryl Rose and Anthony are friends.
All their thoughts and feelings are entwined.
Regarding the strong message that this sends:
Yearnings can be shared and not combined.
Lives can go down separate paths, with friends
Reaching separate homes, though intertwined.
One waits upon some fool; the other sends
Such candor as with love can be combined.
Each is bound for other hearts, for friends
Are never quite so desperately entwined,
Needing still the whippoorwill that sends
Them word of greater rapture uncombined.
Heed the happiness of two close friends,
Oak-like in their postures, unentwined,
No doubt who hear the hints the cold wind sends,
Yet choose to love each other uncombined.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Friendship
August 10: We’re Never Completely in One Place
August 11: You Have a Smile That Lights the World
August 12: I Would Not Ask You to Forget
August 13: Daryl Rose and Anthony Are Friends

I Would Not Ask You to Forget

 August 12, 2020

 Dear Subscriber:

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

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

 A #friendshippoem apologizing to a friend for bad behavior:

I would not ask you to forget
How I've betrayed your trust.
I'm asking, though, that you forgive
Because I feel I must.

I can't just let our friendship go
Nor let this silence last.
I know I can't undo what's done,
But, please, let past be past.

Let my mistake be memory
Where you may keep your pain,
While I annihilate this thing
I'll never do again.

And let us once again renew
A friendship that is real:
Limping, yes, but still alive,
With wounds that time can heal.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Friendship
August 10: We’re Never Completely in One Place
August 11: You Have a Smile That Lights the World
August 12: I Would Not Ask You to Forget

You Have a Smile That Lights the World

 August 11, 2020

 Dear Subscriber:

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

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

 A friendship poem to a friend whose inner happiness lights the world:

You have a smile that lights the world,
Shining from within,
Breaking out between the clouds
That form the skin of self.

Lucky we, to live nearby
That unpretentious sun,
To share its fire, to feel its love,
To know its warmth so well.

Just as the sun's sweet liquid joy
Is captured in the wine,
So with us your happiness
Is captured in our lives.

 © by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Friendship
August 10: We’re Never Completely in One Place
August 11: You Have a Smile That Lights the World

We're Never Completely in One Place

 August 10, 2020

 Dear Subscriber:

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

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

 A friendship poem about remembering friends who are leaving permanently for distant places:

 We're never completely in one place. Some part
Of us hangs out on streets we barely remember,
Or converses with faces no longer familiar. Or we start
Lunch in June, and sneak off into December.
Every encounter has a beginning, but never
An ending. Like an exquisite ecosphere,
The mind turns each raindrop into forever,
Nor does it allow one word to disappear.
Some evening, years from now, we'll be driving home,
Talking, I in your car, or you
In mine, driving through rich Iowa loam,
Or flowering Jersey suburbs, or Kalamazoo.
It will not matter, as we speak, whether
Our lives are bitter or sweet. We'll be together.

 © by Nicholas Gordon

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 This week’s theme: Friendship
August 10: We’re Never Completely in One Place

I Love You Just as Though You Were My Own

 August 9, 2020

 Dear Subscriber:

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

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

 A poem to stepchildren about their stepparent’s love:

 I love you just as though you were my own,
Though you are not the children of my blood.
Love’s not lodged within one's flesh and bone,
But in one's heart, which goes which way it would.
I married into you, as into wealth,
Or into some bright mansion, just by chance.
You were not why I came, nor what I felt
That made me give my life to this romance.
Yet once we were a family, out of need,
Love came bubbling up from some sweet spring,
Watering the newly planted seed
That it might in the will of sunlight sing.
So may we long remain through love and art:
Stepparent and stepchildren of the heart.

 © by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Family
August 3: We Once Lived in Israel,You and I
August 4: Cousins Are Our Siblings Once Removed
August 5: In-Laws Aren’t Always Good as You Are
August 6: Nieces Are the Children That We Borrow
August 7: To My Grandchild, with Overwhelming Love
August 8: So Close We Have Become in Thirty Years
August 9: I Love You Just as Though You Were My Own

So Close We Have Become in Thirty Years

 August 8, 2020

 Dear Subscriber:

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

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

 A poem to a sister-in-law about the closeness of their friendship:

 So close we have become in thirty years:
Intimate as sisters, thick as friends;
So intermingled in our joys and tears
That each familiar glance a novel sends!
Even sisters sometimes grow apart,
Remembering but dimly days long past.
In us there is a closeness of the heart,
Natural yet loose enough to last.
Life often can with mad indifference cast
A pair together drawn from odds and ends,
While we could not be better matched by art.

 © by Nicholas Gordon

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 This week’s theme: Family
August 3: We Once Lived in Israel, You and I
August 4: Cousins Are Our Siblings Once Removed
August 5: In-Laws Aren’t Always Good as You Are
August 6: Nieces Are the Children That We Borrow
August 7: To My Grandchild, with Overwhelming Love
August 8: So Close We Have Become in Thirty Years