For Some the Years Turn Out to Be a Blessing

March 2, 2021

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 50th anniversary poem for a very happily married couple:

For some the years turn out to be a blessing:
In life and love the choices of the heart
Find their way to lushly colored meadows
Touched at night by fantasies of stars.
Yearnings sway like dancers in the wind.

You have learned the secrets of caressing,
Each in passionate tune with each other's part.
All the wind-whipped ripples in your shallows
Reappear as song that nothing mars,
Sheer happiness unfolding without end.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/50yea2.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.
March 1: How Might a Couple Couple Late in Life
March 2: For Some the Years Turn Out to Be a Blessing

How Might a Couple Couple Late in Life

March 1, 2021

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 fifth anniversary poem for a couple who got together late in life:

How might a couple couple late in life,
A time when some are loath to start anew?
Perhaps the heart retains its appetite;
Perhaps one's lust for love is never through.
Years may modify that primal need,
For passion fades like a slowly setting sun.
Intimacy stays, though tides recede;
Fulfillment comes as lucid mornings come.
The task of making coupling make sense
Has the benefit of experience.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/howm13.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.
March 1: How Might a Couple Couple Late in Life

Trevor Is a Dancing Cavalier

February 28, 2021

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for a bright, self-assured young man whom life has not yet humbled:

Trevor is a dancing cavalier
Rejoicing in his beauty and his youth.
Even though his days are much too full,
Vivaciously he charms whatever's dull,
Opening his blue sky bright and clear,
Rain not yet darkening his hard-edged truth.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/stanle.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Portraits of Men.
February 22: Adam Is a Model for Us All
February 23: Alan Is an Absolute Delight
February 24: Alessandro Savors Solitude
February 25: Nessen Sings a Solitary Song
February 26: Said Is “Dr. Happy”
February 27: Stanley’s Everything I’ve Ever Wanted
February 28: Trevor Is a Dancing Cavalier

Stanley's Everything I've Ever Wanted

February 27, 2021

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for an ideal lover:

Stanley's everything I've ever wanted:
Tough and sexy, tender, sweet, and strong;
Aggressive, playful, funny, proud, undaunted;
Needy, caring, ready to be wrong.
Love loves not a calm consistency.
Each heart longs to be helpless, hopeless, haunted,
Yearning for the wind to stir its sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/stanle.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Portraits of Men.
February 22: Adam Is a Model for Us All
February 23: Alan Is an Absolute Delight
February 24: Alessandro Savors Solitude
February 25: Nessen Sings a Solitary Song
February 26: Said Is “Dr. Happy”
February 27: Stanley’s Everything I’ve Ever Wanted

Said is "Dr. Happy"

February 26, 2021

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem for someone who at ninety is still dancing through life:

Said is "Dr. Happy," even now
At ninety, with death living in his heart.
If one must sorrow, he can show us how,
Dancing still with wisdom and with art.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/said.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Portraits of Men.
February 22: Adam Is a Model for Us All
February 23: Alan Is an Absolute Delight
February 24: Alessandro Savors Solitude
February 25: Nessen Sings a Solitary Song
February 26: Said Is “Dr. Happy”

Nessen Sings a Solitary Song

February 25, 2021

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A philosophical name poem for someone who is able to transform the world by embracing it:

Nessen sings a solitary song,
Entering the forest of his fears.
So must we all make peace with what must be,
Singing of life's beauty lustily,
Embracing what would else be cold and sere.
Nor can the forest fail to sing along.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/nessen.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Portraits of Men.
February 22: Adam Is a Model for Us All
February 23: Alan Is an Absolute Delight
February 24: Alessandro Savors Solitude
February 25: Nessen Sings a Solitary Song

Alessandro Savors Solitude

February 24, 2021

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A philosophical name poem for someone who has withdrawn deep into our common soul:

Alessandro savors solitude,
Looking for connection to the whole.
Each is everyone, and so includes
Such rapture as resides in every soul,
Selfless self, with neither will nor goal.
Anticipating death, he undoes life,
Needing nothing, wanting, wishing nothing,
Delivered from what would engender strife,
Relinquishing all but simple acts of being,
Old conqueror of all that's worth the winning.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/aless2.html. For more name poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/namepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Portraits of Men.
February 22: Adam Is a Model for Us All
February 23: Alan Is an Absolute Delight
February 24: Alessandro Savors Solitude