Tonight There Are No Stars

August 25, 2020

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

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A psychological number poem about the angst of youth:

Tonight there are no stars. The air seems
Wild with hunger. All night it remains
Evening. Desire seems almost like regret.
Not even ecstasy will calm us. Let
The singers fill the darkness. Our games
Yield only hours. We wait. Time redeems.

To dream's the calling of a youth, yet
Who dares call together all those dreams,
Or touch the ones selected for the flames?

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology
August 24: To Know Another, One Must Be Insane
August 25: Tonight There Are No Stars

To Know Another, One Must Be Insane

August 24, 2020

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

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

A psychological number poem about how to escape one’s personal black hole:

To know another, one must be insane.
Words whisper songs we've heard a thousand times.
Even silence babbles like the moon.
No light escapes one's personal black hole,
Though in its massive grip all light is bent.
Yet there remains love for these leaves in the wind.

One’s love is like a deep, saltwater pool
No thought will ever bathe in. Come rest with us
Easy in this wordless, selfless sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology
August 24: To Know Another, One Must Be Insane

You Live in the World You Choose

August 23, 2020

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

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A philosophical poem about how one’s choices shape one’s world:

You live in the world you choose.
Each act is a creation.
The evil and the good
Result in just proportion.

The things you see and know,
What you think and feel,
What you are and do --
Your world is by your choice.

Choose love, and you'll be loved.
Choose hate, and you'll be hated.
Everything you choose,
You'll see in others' eyes.

© 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
August 19: Fortune Comes in Many Shapes and Guises
August 20: Fortune Is a Favor to Be Earned
August 21: Freedom Is Imprisoned in the Flesh
August 22: There Is No Jail for the Soul
August 23: You Live in the World You Choose

There Is No Jail for the Soul

August 22, 2020

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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 poem about the freedom of the soul:

There is no jail for the soul,
Which everywhere is free.
One might as well secure the sky
Or chain the open sea.

The body may in bondage sit
Or on a golden throne.
It matters little to the soul,
Whose fate is all its own.

The soul is sovereign in the self,
And ever free to choose.
Without, one may be forced to crawl;
Within, one can refuse.

Without, one can be flayed alive,
But none can touch the soul
That willing only what is good
Emerges sane and whole.

© 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
August 19: Fortune Comes in Many Shapes and Guises
August 20: Fortune Is a Favor to Be Earned
August 21: Freedom Is Imprisoned in the Flesh
August 22: There Is No Jail for the Soul

Freedom Is Imprisoned in the Flesh

August 21, 2020

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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 poem about freedom and the courage to listen to one’s inner voice:

Freedom is imprisoned in the flesh,
Restricted in the unrestricted soul.
Each must hearken to the inner voice,
Even when there seems but little choice,
Demanding nothing more than being whole,
Opening each gift of time afresh,
Maintaining through one's courage one's control.

© 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
August 19: Fortune Comes in Many Shapes and Guises
August 20: Fortune Is a Favor to Be Earned
August 21: Freedom Is Imprisoned in the Flesh

Fortune Is a Favor to Be Earned

August 20, 2020

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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 poem about the hard fact that fortune owes one nothing:

Fortune is a favor to be earned.
One's will is like a wind on weathered stone.
Remnants of one's dreams lie all around,
The leaves that nourish well the fertile ground,
Uniting the imagined with the known.
Neither slave nor free, nor blessed nor spurned,
Each borrows life and must repay the loan.

© 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
August 19: Fortune Comes in Many Shapes and Guises
August 20: Fortune Is a Favor to Be Earned

Fortune Comes in Many Shapes and Guises

August 19, 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 oneness of one’s fortune, good and bad:

Fortune comes in many shapes and guises.
It is by choice what one might never choose.
For those who like to limit their surprises,
There's always less to gain and more to lose.
Years bring heartbreak one cannot refuse.

Even so, one's fortune is oneself.
If choice and chance like lovers bring to birth
Good progeny and bad, there is no gulf
Hovering between one's choice and worth.
There is but one ecology, one Earth.

© 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
August 19: Fortune Comes in Many Shapes and Guises