Vic and Jennifer Are Deep in Love

August 31, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem about the need to like the one you love:

Vic and Jennifer are deep in love.

Quite a couple, people often say.

They also like each other very much,

Which is not, of course, the usual way.

Often people hate the ones they love

Because they feel all tangled in a net

Of needs and expectations they don't want

And know they can't quite get away from--yet.

But Vic and Jennifer are smart enough

To know the need to like the ones they love;

To enjoy what life and love have put before them,

And dance when they don't have the will to move.

Vic has brown hair, Jennifer's a blonde,

But both display the clearest light blue eyes.

Thus they're different, yet they are the same:

A formula familiar to the wise.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/vicand.html. For more poems about love, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

8/28: Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

8/29: Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart

8/30: Jeremy Is All I Ever Wanted

8/31: Vic and Jennifer Are Deep in Love

Jeremy Is All I Ever Wanted

August 30, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem about a love that is a yearning for what one has:

Jeremy is all I ever wanted.

Even when my life is going wrong,

Recalling his sweet face brings back my smile,

Escalating all my thoughts to song.

More than I ever dreamed, my heart is haunted,

Yearning for what I have all the while.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/jeremy.html. For more poems about love, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

8/28: Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

8/29: Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart

8/30: Jeremy Is All I Ever Wanted

Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart

August 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A name poem about the memory of a past love:

Norma likes to linger in my heart,

Opening memories that sing while weeping.

Remember that the past is in our keeping,

More beautiful than bitter as we part

Again, as though she were awake, then sleeping.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/norma.html. For more poems about love, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

8/28: Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

8/29: Norma Likes to Linger in My Heart

Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

August 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem about lasting love as the remnant of Eden’s innocence:

Sing of lasting love, the gift of Eden,

Exilic remnant of our innocence,

Valued well by those who know its beauty,

Embraced as both a gift and cherished duty,

No less an income than a large expense.

There is no better fortune to believe in,

Yearning for what each day will dispense.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/sing14.html. For more poems about love, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

8/28: Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden

Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

August 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem about the love of life:

Sing of love and love-sustaining passion,

Intimacy, friendship, lust, and joy,

X-ing out whatever might destroy

The love of life that ought one’s choices fashion,

Yearning for the gifts that spirits buoy.

So might one satisfy the deep desire

Ever burning in the inmost heart,

Vivid source of purpose, faith, and art,

Enduring flame of some eternal fire,

Never whole unless through love a part.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/sing13.html. For more poems about love, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

8/27: Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion

Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

August 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number poem about how make love last throughout one’s life:

Fortune comes and goes; love abides.

One does the little things that will endure,

Returning like a tide to what is sure:

The garden where one’s innocence resides,

Yet yearning for a world more kind and pure.

Nor ought those longings lose their rich allure.

In riding towards one’s dreams, one ever rides,

Never hoping to one’s hopes secure,

Embracing well the work that love provides.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fort11.html. For more poems about love, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Love

8/26: Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides

Bones and Fire

August 25, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

I was away from August 7^th to August 19^th, so for this theme the poems have been divided as follows: The first two poems appeared on August 5^th and 6^th; the last five poems will appear from August 21^st through August 25^th. The theme for this divided week is social issues

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

A poem about the Holocaust:

Bones and fire,

Fire and bones:

We cannot look!

It will sear our eyes!

Even here is beauty,

The ashes of love.

To see you truly

I would have to die.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/bones.html. For more poems about social issues, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/issuespoems.html .

This week’s theme: Social Issues

8/5: Bullies Like to Pulverize Their Pain

8/6: Cheating Is a Crime Against Oneself

8/21: More Pain Cannot Be Wrung from Those Who Wait

8/22: You Did Not Merely Die, but You Were Murdered

8/23: Raping Me Was Fun for Him

8/24: Society Is You and Me

8/25: Bones and Fire