America Is on a Long Journey

June 30, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about America’s long journey towards dreams:

America is on a long journey.

Mountainous dreams are its destination.

Each hovers hazily on the horizon.

Remember that the end is not the road.

If the present is hot and dusty, don’t settle for it.

Come with us further down the road. You’ll see

A magnificent mountain looming like a song.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 30: America Is on a Long Journey

America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

June 29, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of American Independence Day (July 4th), is America.

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

A poem for American Independence Day (July 4th) about America and hope:

America is built on a foundation of hope.

Maybe hope is the best foundation to build on –

Elastic, light weight, lovely, strong, enduring.

Remember to lay aside resentment and fear.

In each of us goodness awaits the touch of love.

Come to the meeting with an open heart,

And you will be met with an open heart.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: America

June 29: America Is Built on a Foundation of Hope

Just Want You to Know How Proud We Are of You

June 28, 2020

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

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A poem from siblings to their brother or sister on graduation day:

Just want you to know how proud we are of you,

How much your graduation means to us.

Most people finish high school now, it's true,

But sometimes we just like to make a fuss.

Years ago, when we fought every day,

When we were merely siblings, not yet friends,

Such talk might make us kick up our heels and bray

Like donkeys as some silly love scene ends.

But now the love we've always felt has come

Into its own, and so we feel your pride

In all the things you've managed to get done

Without your loyal siblings at your side.

Enjoy the day and bask in its bright sun.

The honor's yours, but we'll all share the fun.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave 

June 24: Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 25: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

June 26: There Is No Future Good Enough

June 27: To the Graduate, No More a Child

June 28: Just Want to Say How Proud We Are of You

To the Graduate, No More a Child

June 27, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem from parent to child on graduation day:

To the graduate, no more a child,

On whom these many years my love has shone:

Take pleasure in the pleasure of my pride,

However much you've managed on your own.

Even as you dance upon your stage,

Growing ever more endowed with grace,

Remember that my love will never change,

A place for you beyond all time and place.

Do what you will within your own wide world,

Understanding in your own wise way:

Always know you are my field of wonder,

The wild, star-strewn moor on which I wander,

Even as I honor you today.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 24: Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 25: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

June 26: There Is No Future Good Enough

June 27: To the Graduate, No More a Child

There Is No Future Good Enough

June 26, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A graduation poem about idealistic hopes and dreams:

There is no future good enough

For what we hope to be,

Nor world with windows wide enough

For what we hope to see.

Yet when we turn to compromise

The dreams with which we wake,

We'll glimpse behind a memory

Which we cannot forsake.

How beautiful this time of youth

That is so quickly gone!

We came to learn together, and

In moments we are done.

How long we will remember this

Brief time when life would wait

Upon the true perception that

Comes always far too late.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 24: Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 25: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

June 26: There Is No Future Good Enough

I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

June 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem from a deceased parent to his or her child at graduation:

I would be proud of you, could I attend,

Would I now know the things I'll never know,

Could I have watched you come to comprehend

The wonder of the world in which you grow.

Do not think I did not think of you,

Imagining the beauty of this day,

For I was at your graduation, too,

Though long ago, and in a different way.

Life can be full, no matter short or long,

As long as love can fill it with its grace.

And I have felt such pride, and love so strong,

That you will live your life in my embrace.

So of the pride today I claim my share:

Though I am not, I know that I am there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 24: Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 25: I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

Graduation Grabs You from Behind

June 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A graduation poem about the apparent unreality of the moment:

Graduation grabs you from behind.

Reality seems suddenly unreal,

A timeless moment somehow trapped in time,

Drowning in a feeling you can't feel.

Ultimately, when the day is over

And you are left alone with who you are,

The moment will be something to remember,

In which you feel your feelings from afar.

Only now too much is happening.

Nor can you keep your heart from wandering.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 22: Give a Little Thought to Years Gone By

June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 24: Graduation Grabs You from Behind