Happy Thirteenth Anniversary

November 18, 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 thirteenth anniversary poem about why thirteen is actually a lucky number:

Happy thirteenth anniversary!
All our love to you this lucky day!
Pleased to say it in this musical way!
Pleased to spell it out for all to see!
Yet there are many fools who don't agree
That thirteen can be lucky, and who say,
How can Judas be lucky, who'd betray --
Ill fate! - his Lord, although his choice was free?
Remember, though, that there were twelve apostles.
The thirteenth Supper guest was Christ, not Judas.
Embrace, then, that most holy, sacred number!
Equally lucky to Chinese and Quetzalcoatl!
Nor fear the coming year, nor hope encumber,
To surrender to such superstitious nonsense,
Happily together, come what may!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
November 16: How Can I Tell You More than I Can Know
November 17: Have an Angel Assigned to Your Account
November 18: Happy Thirteenth Anniversary

Have an Angel Assigned to Your Account

November 17, 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.

An eleventh anniversary poem imagining a customer-service angel on call:

Have an angel assigned to your account,
A customer-service angel with wide wings,
Pleased to whittle mountains as he sings,
Paring them to hills you can surmount.
You simply dial his number. He appears
Every time you call him from the heart,
Letting love decipher your joint chart,
Embracing the familiars of your fears.
Vest in him your unrecorded dreams;
Entrust to him the hopes you gave up hoping,
Needing capital to keep on coping,
Trying to reach ends bereft of means.
Heaven does look after you, it seems.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
November 16: How Can I Tell You More than I Can Know
November 17: Have an Angel Assigned to Your Account

How Can I Tell You More than I Can Know

November 16, 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.

An anniversary poem from a child to his or her parents:

How can I tell you more than I can know?
All the oceans in me fall away.
Precious thoughts, when wild emotions blow,
Pause fleetingly, but can't prolong their stay.
You are the dual anchors of my life
As inner tides well up and then decrease;
Nor can I see you else but man and wife,
Not two but one, a single source of peace.
I need the love you harbor for each other
Very much as if it were for me:
Each day with both a father and a mother
Rests within, a quiet harmony.
So may your love continue, sweet and strong,
As beautiful as now, your whole lives long.
Remember well my love for both of you:
Your future holds the hopes of more than two.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/howca5.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html.

This week’s theme: Anniversaries
November 16: How Can I Tell You More than I Can Know

Fifty Is a Time of Hope and Healing

November 15, 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 as an age when one begins to think more immediately about death:

Fifty is a time of hope and healing,
In which one reconciles oneself with death,
Feeling grateful for the grace of feeling
The passion that ambition was concealing,
Yielding joy for the gift of every breath.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/50d.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
November 15: Fifty Is a Time of Hope and Healing

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