A calendar poem for May:
May
is innocent and hot to breed,
Alternately chaste and ruled by need,
Yielding to the wisdom of her seed.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Chords
of Harmony. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI
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Here
is neither here nor there;
Now's
eternity.
In
every meaning that has meaning,
There
is mystery.
Nothing
is a pseudo-concept:
Nothing
can be nothing.
Being,
then, must be eternal:
Always,
ever, something.
How
might that be? I have no clue
What
it is or how
It
came to be. I only know
The
miracle of now.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Bike
Sharing to Paradise. By Dan Bodan. Music free to use at YouTube.
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A
poem for Easter about suburban life, death, and love:
Having walked the tight-lipped Jersey streets,
A house to every inward-turning love,
Peaceful, neat, above all else secure,
Pausing, I am ravished by their beauty.
Years will tell the stories of these streets;
Each house, the joy of its secluded love,
As children come and go, indulged, secure,
Singed or not by life's most awesome beauty.
There is no quarter on these death-strewn streets,
Each house the scene of terror, pain, and love,
Redeemed alone by the passion of its beauty.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Nocturne.
By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.
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A Passover poem about how each Jew’s participation in Jewish ritual enabled Judaism to survive two thousand years of exile:
Part
of being Jewish is a choice
As
one becomes an act of preservation.
Seders
start the stream of admonition,
Stories
meant to bind one to the past.
On
words alone the exiles had to last,
Verses
reified by repetition,
Each
an heirloom of a generation
Reared
to give those ancient words a voice.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Mysterious
Sorrows. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
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A calendar poem for April:
April is quite
conscious of his beauty,
Poised to sing a more idyllic song.
Regrettably, he sometimes gets it wrong
In coming on delayed a bit too long,
Losing all sense of his springtime duty.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Dancing
Star. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
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A
poem for Eid al-Fitr about returning to the holiness of ordinary life at the
end of the greater holiness of Ramadan:
Each
moment is like sunlight on the heart,
Infinity within infinity.
Descend now from the whole back to the part,
As fast gives way to feast, and One to me.
Love is worship, as is pure, chaste pleasure;
Food is worship, music, dance, delight.
Immersed in talk, we savor what we
treasure,
The days of fasting fading fast from
sight,
Returning, turning, burning through the
night.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music:
Parzival. By William Rosati. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI
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A name poem for Adela, who despite the odds is determined to shape her own future:
Adela
removes the writing on the wall,
Determined
to replace it with her own.
Even
though no fate may heed her scrawl,
Like
a god she wills what will befall,
A
prophet staking claim to the unknown.
©
by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: One
Step Closer. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI
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