Hell Does Not Admit Those Who Are Loved

October 28, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Halloween, is the spirit.

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

A Halloween poem about how love saves the spirits of loved ones from Hell:

Hell does not admit those who are loved,
All whose joy has been another's joy,
Loved enough to pay their debts in full,
Loved enough to suffer for their sins;
Oceanic love, too much to bear,
Welling up in tears that grace the heart;
Enduring love, that gives life to the dead,
Embracing what now haunts the lonely night;
Naked love that stays hand of Hell.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/helldo.html. For more Halloween poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/halloweenpoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Spirit
October 26: Hear, O Spirits! The World, the World Is One
October 27: Here Is So Much More than Here
October 28: Hell Does Not Admit Those Who Are Loved

Here Is So Much More than Here

October 27, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Halloween, is the spirit.

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

A Halloween poem about the survival of the spirit in loved ones’ memories:

Here is so much more than here;
A moment never ends.
Lines make porous boundary lines;
Life on death depends.
One lives in dreams and memories,
Wandering within,
Embracing loved ones live and dead,
Each by its spirit tenanted,
No less those long unseen.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/herei4.html. For more Halloween poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/halloweenpoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Spirit
October 26: Hear, O Spirits! The World, the World Is One
October 27: Here Is So Much More than Here

Hear, O Spirits! The World, the World Is One

October 26, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Halloween, is the spirit.

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

A Halloween poem about the illusion of time:

Hear, O Spirits! The world, the world is one!
All of it - the living and the dead!
Let not time reduce reality,
Leaving us the remnant we can see,
Offering a future filled with dread.
Well may we know that one is never none;
Existence is forever, been is be.
Each consciousness may look behind, ahead,
Not knowing that the moment's never done.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/hearos.html. For more Halloween poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/halloweenpoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Spirit
October 26: Hear, O Spirits! The World, the World Is One

Happy Sixteenth Anniversary

October 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A sixteenth anniversary poem about time and love:

Happy sixteenth anniversary!
After all these years, still in love!
Perhaps not more or less, but differently,
Perhaps because we know what time has proved.
Years flow past our bit of riverside
Singing inconsolably of beauty.
In sympathy, we watch the boats go by,
Xeroxing our poems in praise of duty.
There is in home an antidote for time,
Even as love lasts beyond a life,
Each passion pressed into a paradigm
New realized in the grace of man and wife.
The love that lasts is stubborn, tough, and strong,
Having need to need, both shared and long.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ30.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
October 19: Happy Twenty-First Anniversary
October 20: Here in the Midst of Happiness
October 21: Eleven Years Is Not So Long a Time
October 22: Happy Twelfth Anniversary
October 23: Happy Fifty-First Anniversary
October 24: Happiness Remains a Choice
October 25: Happy Sixteenth Anniversary

Happiness Remains a Choice

October 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A ninth anniversary poem about the choice of happiness:

Happiness remains a choice
All through one's wandering.
Perhaps it is one's inner voice;
Perhaps the heart can sing.
Yearning can be ravenous;
Need can swallow joy.
In being, one is fabulous,
Not merely, but miraculous,
The happening of happiness
Hard times cannot destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ43.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
October 19: Happy Twenty-First Anniversary
October 20: Here in the Midst of Happiness
October 21: Eleven Years Is Not So Long a Time
October 22: Happy Twelfth Anniversary
October 23: Happy Fifty-First Anniversary
October 24: Happiness Remains a Choice

Happy Fifty-First Anniversary

October 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A fifty-first anniversary poem about the commemoration after the big fiftieth anniversary:

Happy fifty-first anniversary!
A wavelet in the wash of last year's wave?
Perhaps. But may you ride it happily
Past the mark the last long groundswell laid,
Yielding to the gentle upward grade.

For every year sweeps just a little higher,
Inundating all that came before.
Foam bubbles where the incoming waves retire,
The champagne of the unresisting shore.
Years rise and fall across that timeless floor.

For you, may each year be a year of love
In which beneath the moment there is joy.
Relentless as the passing years may prove,
So may the lilt of life your spirits buoy,
The gift of love that time cannot destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ97.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
October 19: Happy Twenty-First Anniversary
October 20: Here in the Midst of Happiness
October 21: Eleven Years Is Not So Long a Time
October 22: Happy Twelfth Anniversary
October 23: Happy Fifty-First Anniversary

Happy Twelfth Anniversary

October 22, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A twelfth anniversary poem about taking the measure of love:

Happy twelfth anniversary!
A day to take the measure of your love,
Pleased that it still fits you comfortably,
Pleased your lives so beautiful have proved.
Years break across your wide and gentle strand,
Then draw back to curl and break again,
While you together on that shoreline stand,
Enduring through the rush of wave and wind.
Long may you live with wisdom and with grace,
Fortunate to share a sweet embrace,
Treasure you no longer have to seek,
Home where when you enter you find peace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ96.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
October 19: Happy Twenty-First Anniversary
October 20: Here in the Midst of Happiness
October 21: Eleven Years Is Not So Long a Time
October 22: Happy Twelfth Anniversary