Shall There Be a Moment After All

September 7, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Labor Day (USA), is professions.

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

A philosophical number poem about the transcendent moment that can be achieved by an actor:

Shall there be a moment after all
In which each soul is overwhelmed by grace,
X-ing out the sense of time and place,
There within some small, half-empty hall
You fill beyond the brim with your embrace;

One moment in that spare, well-crafted space,
Needing all your art, each soul in thrall,
Enduring being's beauty face to face?

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/shallt.html. For more poems about professions, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html.

This week’s theme: Professions
September 7: Shall There Be a Moment After All

Jessica Is Now Sixteen

September 6, 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 teen-aged girl whose choices will eventually define her:

Jessica is now sixteen:
Exceptionally sweet.
Shining through her ready smile
Sunshine brightens us awhile,
Intense but not complete.
Choices gather, hard and lean,
Along her dappled street.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/jessi2.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
September 5: Trina Is a Passionate Delight
September 6: Jessica Is Now Sixteen

Trina Is a Passionate Delight

September 5, 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 alight with passion:

Trina is a passionate delight,
Rich as the ripe velvet of a rose.
In her one finds the glories of the night,
Nor dark nor still, but filled with braziers bright,
Aglow with pleasures sweet as Eden knows.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/trina.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
September 5: Trina Is a Passionate Delight

Audio and Video Music: Emotional Love Theme.
By Biz Baz Studio. Music free to use at YouTube.

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