There Is No Gift More Precious than One's Health

November 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Thanksgiving, is saying thank you.

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

A thank you poem to healthcare workers:

There is no gift more precious than one's health.
Happiness must rest upon that ground.
Alight with pain, no pleasure can be found,
Nor joy in love or beauty, words or wealth.
Know that I am grateful for your skill,
Your sensitivity and dedication.
Out of strength, I dreaded all sensation
Until your healing touch restored my will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/there4.html. For more thank you poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thankyoupoems.html .

This week’s theme: Saying Thank You
November 23: Thank You All for All That You Have Done
November 24: Thank You for the Favor of Your Seed
November 25: There Is No Gift More Precious than One’s Health

Thank You for the Favor of Your Seed

November 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Thanksgiving, is saying thank you.

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

A thank you poem for a non-commercial sperm donation:

Thank you for the favor of your seed,
Half my child, who will be mine alone,
A part of you dispassionately sown,
Nor have I of you any other need.
Kindness is your only motivation,
Yet in this act you're being more than kind,
Opening a window to the wind,
Unloosing to my heart half your creation.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/than39.html. For more thank you poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thankyoupoems.html .

This week’s theme: Saying Thank You
November 23: Thank You All for All That You Have Done
November 24: Thank You for the Favor of Your Seed

Thank You All for All That You Have Done

November 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Thanksgiving, is saying thank you.

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

A thank you poem from a family to family or friends for help through a difficult time:

Thank you all for all that you have done.
Hard times are now turned into times of pride.
All this we managed with you by our side,
Nor could we otherwise this course have run.
Kindness isn't tendered on demand:
You gave with love, not merely out of duty.
Our days are daily burnished by that beauty.
Upon your love we three now proudly stand.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thank6.html. For more thank you poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thankyoupoems.html .

This week’s theme: Saying Thank You
November 23: Thank You All for All That You Have Done

Happy Fifty-Third Anniversary

November 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 fifty-third anniversary poem about how a marriage, like a river, gathers strength from a variety of tributaries:

Happy fifty-third anniversary!
As love flows on, it gathers tributaries
Pouring into the channels of the heart,
Plumes of color drawn from distant mountains,
Yielding, yearning, joining your grand journey.

Flow on, then, with renewed vitality
In which one finds an answer to one's queries,
Finds the whole of which one is a part,
The love that pours through one from distant fountains
Yet is one's bliss, one's passion, and one's beauty.

The love one feels and is flows to the sea
Holding in its arms the earth it carries,
Irrigating fields with skill and art,
Ready still to bear its precious burden
Deep into the delta of its duty.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ99.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
November 19: Have Another Look at What You’ve Done
November 20: Heaven Runs a Pretty Good Hotel
November 21: Happiness Wears Ordinary Clothes
November 22: Happy Fifty-Third Anniversary

Happiness Wears Ordinary Clothes

November 21, 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 twenty-eighth anniversary poem about a couple’s need to celebrate their love:

Happiness wears ordinary clothes,
Appropriate for everyday pursuits:
Perhaps because desire comes and goes;
Perhaps because one gets mud on one's boots.
Yet one must celebrate from time to time
The happiness of ordinary days,
Whittling the wonder into rhyme,
Embracing one's prosaic life with praise.
Now let us sing the words that we would speak,
Then dance to steps through which we merely move!
Years look for the passions of a peak,
Expecting some bright blossoming of love.
If happiness must be a stable state,
Given that it must so long endure,
Here we have a day to celebrate
The choices and the chances of our fate,
Having found a grace we can secure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ98.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
November 19: Have Another Look at What You’ve Done
November 20: Heaven Runs a Pretty Good Hotel
November 21: Happiness Wears Ordinary Clothes

Heaven Runs a Pretty Good Hotel

November 20, 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 how beautifully Heaven has designed the hotel of marriage:

Heaven runs a pretty good hotel.
All is well arranged for happiness,
Placed just so, to heighten tenderness,
Placed to spirits heal and sorrows quell.
Yet some against such hostelry rebel,
So pitched on pain they see it as success,
Invested in the cause of their distress,
Xerophytes, who would in deserts dwell.
The choice is there before you every day:
Enduring love or unenduring pleasure,
Exiting the garden of your grace.
Nor is there any reason not to stay,
There being at this inn the things you treasure,
Here, where Heaven runs a pretty good place.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/heave9.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
November 19: Have Another Look at What You’ve Done
November 20: Heaven Runs a Pretty Good Hotel

Have Another Look at What You've Done

November 19, 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 fourteenth anniversary poem about love as the antidote for the toxins of life:

Have another look at what you've done
And then rejoice at all the good you see,
Pleased with how you've whittled what might be,
Pleased with seeds you've planted one by one!
Yet there are many toxins still to come
Floating on the tides unnaturally
Out of greed or ignorance as we
Unravel mysteries of rain and sun.
Remember that the antidote is love
That one administers in every act,
Embracing life and beauty and each other.
Each act of love one poisoned drop removes,
Now by example, eloquence, or fact,
To heal some grace that else we might have lacked,
Here for all who would such gifts recover.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/havea6.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
November 19: Have Another Look at What You’ve Done