Fifty Can Be Taken Well in Stride

November 14, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem for fifty with advice for someone to whom life has been good:

Fifty can be taken well in stride
If one would tread but lightly on the ground;
For all the greatest goods of life abound,
The things that make one want to dance inside,
Yielding in one's smile a pinch of pride.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/50b.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Being Fifty
November 9: For You There Can Be No Regret
November 10: For Those Who Would Make Life a Thing of Beauty
November 11: For You It’s Been a Steep and Sometimes Tortured
November 12: Fifty Is a Moment for Reflection
November 13: Fifty’s Full of Life and Well-Tuned Vigor
November 14: Fifty Can Be Taken Well in Stride

Fifty's Full of Life and Well-Tuned Vigor

November 13, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem for fifty for someone who is still in the prime of life:

Fifty's full of life and well-tuned vigor,
In full career across a fertile field.
Fears of night from time to time may trigger
Thoughts that an exquisite sadness yield.
Yet life is still as rich and sweet as ever.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/50.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Being Fifty
November 9: For You There Can Be No Regret
November 10: For Those Who Would Make Life a Thing of Beauty
November 11: For You It’s Been a Steep and Sometimes Tortured
November 12: Fifty Is a Moment for Reflection
November 13: Fifty’s Full of Life and Well-Tuned Vigor

Fifty Is a Moment for Reflection

November 12, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem for fifty about the milestone as a time for reflection:

Fifty is a moment for reflection
In which one can look back upon one's past
Feeling both estrangement and affection,
The longing that one finds in recollection,
Yearning ever for what cannot last.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/50g.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Being Fifty
November 9: For You There Can Be No Regret
November 10: For Those Who Would Make Life a Thing of Beauty
November 11: For You It’s Been a Steep and Sometimes Tortured
November 12: Fifty Is a Moment for Reflection

For You It's Been a Steep and Sometimes Tortured

November 11, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem for fifty for someone who has come through a rough period:

For you it's been a steep and sometimes tortured
Incline to this long and lovely view,
Far enough to take a breath or two.
The sturm und drang you've climbed through is now scattered,
Yielding to a calm, translucent blue.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fory16.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Being Fifty
November 9: For You There Can Be No Regret
November 10: For Those Who Would Make Life a Thing of Beauty
November 11: For You It’s Been a Steep and Sometimes Tortured

For Those Who Would Make Life a Thing of Beauty

November 10, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem for fifty for those who have devoted their lives to art:

For those who would make life a thing of beauty,
Invested deeply in some complex art,
Fine tuning the perceptions of the heart,
There is no boundary between joy and duty,
Yielding grace from which one would not part.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/forth3.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Being Fifty
November 9: For You There Can Be No Regret
November 10: For Those Who Would Make Life a Thing of Beauty

For You There Can Be No Regret

November 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem for fifty for someone whose actions have been motivated by love:

For you there can be no regret:
In every act there's love.
From this granitic parapet
The view is beautiful, and yet
You yearn, by time's tears moved.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fory15.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Being Fifty
November 9: For You There Can Be No Regret

Take Me to Your Leader

November 8, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Election Day (USA), which takes place this year on Nov. 3.

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

A political poem about inter-galactic imperialism:

Take me to your leader
And tell her I am here
For mutual enrichment.
You have no cause for fear.

Your planet contains minerals
Of which we are in need,
For which we will pay handsomely.
We come not out of greed.

We come for trade and friendship
From the Emperor
Who rules the peaceful universe,
The Pax Galactica.

And since we have an army
Far more advanced than yours,
We offer our assistance
To end your endless wars

And make for our investments
A canopy of peace.
It is in both our interests
That all these conflicts cease.

We offer you a culture
Of worlds beyond your sight
To bring you out of darkness
And lift you into light;

To civilize your values,
Enlighten your beliefs,
Disable your diseases,
Ameliorate your griefs ...

Oh, yes, those are my warships
Circling your sky.
Mere precaution - I don't know
What some of you might try.

Rest assured, we come in peace --
The planet of our birth?
Oh, long ago, so long ago,
It was the planet Earth.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/takeme.html. For more political poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Politics
November 2: Election Day Seems Sometimes like Which Crook
November 3: Elections Bring Regime Change
November 4: Graduation Means that Now You Must
November 5: Peace Is Not the Product of Despair
November 6: The Fire of Love
November 7: Terror Must Be Beaten Back by Justice
November 8: Take Me to Your Leader