Tonya Has Blue Eyes and Short Red Hair

September 4, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for a girl whose yearning must await her more mature self:

Tonya has blue eyes and short red hair.
Overall, she is a budding jewel.
Naïve yearning is not yet self-aware,
Yearning fear and ignorance ought rule
As time reveals the self she'll choose to wear.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/tonya.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html.

This week’s theme: Women and Love
August 31: Alexis Is Chock-Full of Hugs and Kisses
September 1: Jacklyne Has Shoulder-Length Dark Hair 
September 2: Julia Is the Mistress of Her Fate
September 3: Maureen Is Tall and Lovely, a Slender Tree
September 4: Tonya Has Blue Eyes and Short Red Hair

Maureen Is Tall and Lovely, a Slender Tree

September 3, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for a woman who is so much more than an object:

Maureen is tall and lovely, a slender tree
About to vanish into delicate leaf.
Underneath her graceful bas-relief
Rest a curious and impertinent mind,
Even temper, and a heart that's kind.
Elect to view her as an object and see
Not even one tenth of what the world could be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mauree.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html.

This week’s theme: Women and Love
August 31: Alexis Is Chock-Full of Hugs and Kisses
September 1: Jacklyne Has Shoulder-Length Dark Hair
September 2: Julia Is the Mistress of Her Fate
September 3: Maureen Is Tall and Lovely, a Slender Tree

Julia Is the Mistress of Her Fate

September 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for a woman whose one experience of love was quite sufficient:

Julia is the mistress of her fate,
Undoing knots that might constrain her ends.
Love came to her in life a little late,
Intense but short, though quite well worth the wait,
About as much as Julia cared to spend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/julia.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html.

This week’s theme: Women and Love
August 31: Alexis Is Chock-Full of Hugs and Kisses
September 1: Jacklyne Has Shoulder-Length Dark Hair
September 2: Julia Is the Mistress of Her Fate

Jacklyne Has Shoulder-Length Dark Hair

September 1, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for a woman whose too-obvious allure gets in the way of love:

Jacklyne has shoulder-length dark hair,
A dimple on each cheek, hazel eyes,
Come hither in her smile and in her walk,
Kisses poised like jaguars in her talk,
Licentiousness stark naked in her sighs.
Yet nights of tenderness for her are rare.
No man has faith that she could really care,
Even as she strips off her disguise.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/jackly.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html.

This week’s theme: Women and Love
August 31: Alexis Is Chock-Full of Hugs and Kisses
September 1: Jacklyne Has Shoulder-Length Dark Hair

Alexis Is Chock-Full of Hugs and Kisses

August 31, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for an impish woman:

Alexis is chock-full of hugs and kisses.
Light goes through you from her laughing eyes.
Enthusiastic for the lilt of life,
X-raying you again for sheer delight,
Impishly surveying your disguise,
She aims right for the heart, and never misses.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/alexi2.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html.

This week’s theme: Women and Love
August 31: Alexis Is Chock-Full of Hugs and Kisses

Fifty-Three Remains an Open Field

August 30, 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 a woman who drags her hidden pain out into the healing light:

Fifty-three remains an open field,
Intimate with solitude and sky.
For her the child still lingers in the light,
There being wonder in the wisps of why,
Yielding all of life that life can yield.

There are no memories that must be sealed,
Holding tears too terrible to cry,
Resting places restless in the night.
Each ghost is hung out in the sun to dry,
Each wound recleansed until completely healed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/53b.html. For more psychological poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/psychologicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Psychology
August 24: To Know Another, One Must Be Insane
August 25: Tonight, There Are No Stars
August 26: Depression Comes with the Territory
August 27: Why Am I the Mirror of Your Heart
August 28: Fearing for My Sanity
August 29: Emptiness Costs a Bit Extra
August 30: Fifty-Three Remains an Open Field

Emptiness Costs a Bit Extra

August 29, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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 the need for inner space:

Emptiness costs a bit extra:
In distant horizons there is peace.
Given two windows on a whitewashed world,
How could one not long for the sea?
The soul wings it out to the horizon,
Yet stays contented in a well-ordered room.

Sing to the gauze-covered shallows,
Inlets and coves and the open sea!
Xylophones tingle on porches unseen.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/empti.html. For more psychological poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/psychologicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Psychology
August 24: To Know Another, One Must Be Insane
August 25: Tonight, There Are No Stars
August 26: Depression Comes with the Territory
August 27: Why Am I the Mirror of Your Heart
August 28: Fearing for My Sanity
August 29: Emptiness Costs a Bit Extra