Poem of the Week

July 27: Twenty-Eight3

July 28: Sixty-Seven2

July 29: Here We Have a Little Bit of Eden

July 30: More Love Is in My Heart than Any Heaven

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Here We Have a Little Bit of Eden

July 29, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is gardens.

Today’s poem is a fourth anniversary poem in which married love preserves the innocence of Eden.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here we have a little bit of Eden,

An innocence deliberately detained.

Praised be love, that holds the heel of heaven,

Preserving what would else escape from pain,

Yet now renews the heart again, again.

For love depends upon a tended garden

Older than the myth of Adam's fall.

Underneath the usual confusion,

Resisting the implacable illusion

That makes of love a dream beyond recall,

Here it lives within the garden wall.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/herew3.html. For more anniversary poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Gardens

July 27: Twenty-Eight3

July 28: Sixty-Seven2

July 29: Here We Have a Little Bit of Eden

Friday, July 28, 2017

Sixty-Seven2

July 28, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is gardens.

Today’s poem is a number poem about a private garden’s public good.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sixty-seven cultivates her garden,

Invested in the beauty of the Earth.

Xerophyte or hydrophyte, her plants

Thrive heartily, unconscious of their worth,

Yielding grace that lifts life’s loneliest burdens.

So does the private serve the public good.

Each gives gifts to all, for good or ill.

Vision is a gift the garden grants,

Enduring through another’s mind and will.

Nor can one see, except as others would.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/67b.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Gardens

July 27: Twenty-Eight3

July 28: Sixty-Seven2

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Twenty-Eight3

July 27, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is gardens.

Today’s poem is a number poem using a garden to symbolize an early childhood classroom.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Twenty-eight enjoys a busy morning

Working unabated in her garden.

Each tiny plant is years away from bloom,

Needing now the gift of ample room

To grow before the ground begins to harden.

Yet there is much to savor in this dawning.

Each year the winter whistles its chill warning,

Inviting her to lay aside her burden,

Glimpse unsought of universal doom.

However, she knows well her inner guerdon:

The passion that each year she will resume.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/28c.html. For more poems about teachers, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/teacherspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Gardens

July 27: Twenty-Eight3

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Kathleen Charlotte Angel Passed Away

July 26, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is gardens.

Today’s poem is a name poem using a garden to symbolize a lasting spiritual legacy.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Kathleen Charlotte Angel passed away

A year ago, and all her generations

Tend her private garden. Great-grandchildren

Have planted roses there, and will remember.

Love lasts as song, and does not pass away,

Even in the course of generations,

Even when the roses of the children

New bloom within an arbor none remembers.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/kathle.html. For more poems about death, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/deathpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Gardens

Monday, July 24, 2017

Sing of Gardeners, Who Nurture Beauty

July 25, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is gardens.

Today’s poem is a number poem in praise of gardeners.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sing of gardeners, who nurture beauty,

Invested in the source of civilization!

Xerophytes or hydrophytes, their plants

Take root and flourish by their will, not chance,

Yielding a sweet harvest of sensation.

No artist has more exigent a duty

In capturing the radiance of Creation,

Nor one more apt to make the spirit dance,

Earth turned to human song through cultivation.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/singo8.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Gardens