Fortune Is the Child of Will and Chance

August 18, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A philosophical number poem about futility of judging one’s fortune:

Fortune is the child of will and chance.
In seeking cause, one finds a mute regression.
For some, life is an incandescent dance,
Though others tend to look at it askance,
Yearning for what's not in their possession.
Nor can one ever know what might have been.
In judging fortune, there is no reward.
Now is what one has to choose or spin,
Ever of one's will the sovereign lord.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Free Will
August 17: Freedom Isn’t Simply: Do Your Will
August 18: Fortune Is the Child of Will and Chance

Freedom Isn't Simply: Do Your Will

August 17, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A philosophical number poem about the paradoxical nature of free will:

Freedom isn’t simply: Do your will.
One wills (or not) within some circumstance,
Restricted by (or not) love, longing, chance,
Training, courage, passion, hunger, skill.
Yet one must freely choose, for good or ill.

Nor can one choose with less constraint than plants,
Intentional as cloves, as daffodils.
Nor can one change the steps that one must dance,
Even as one chooses freely still.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Free Will
August 17: Freedom Isn’t Simply: Do Your Will

May Our Friendship Last Forever

August 16, 2020

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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 wishing that a friendship would last forever:

May our friendship last forever;
May I sail upon your sea
. May we go through life together;
May there always be a "we."

May I be your endless sky;
May you breathe my gentle air.
May you never wonder why
Each time you look for me, I'm there.

May we be for each a smile
Like the warm, life-giving sun;
Yet when we're in pain awhile,
May our suffering be one.

May we share our special days,
The happiness of one for two;
And if we must go separate ways,
Let my love remain with you.

© 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
August 15: Friends Can Share What None Can Have Alone
August 16: May Our Friendship Last Forever

Friends Can Share What None Can Have Alone

August 15, 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 number and friendship poem that compares how friends see the world to how lonely people do:

Friends can share what none can have alone.
Old and good friends share an ocean view
Reserved for those whose windows open to
The breezes that from foreign shores have blown,
Yet swiftly through one’s rooms become one’s own.

Though some prefer those tiny slits in stone
Which one might shoot a cross-bow arrow through,
Or peer out of to glimpse the feared unknown.

© 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
August 15: Friends Can Share What None Can Have Alone

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