The Point of Playing Roles Is Demolishing Walls

September 8, 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 psychological number poem about the profession of designing RPGs (Role Playing Games):

The point of playing roles is demolishing walls.
Having demolished them renews the heart.
Imagination, though, requires rules,
Restructuring a world with well-wrought tools,
Tempering the wayward will with art.
Yet a game too gated quickly palls.

So ought the character perform the part
In which the player moves as fortune calls,
X-ing out the self the game refuels.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thepo4.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
September 8: The Point of Playing Roles Is Demolishing Walls

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

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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