To Lose Someone Who's Loved You All Your Life

August 22, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a thank-you poem for help after a loved one’s death.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

To lose someone who's loved you all your life,

Having held you long against the darkness,

And felt the press of friends upon your sadness,

Need cutting through your torment like a knife . . .

Kindness is a sign of inner plenty:

Yours does much to mitigate my pain.

Of grief comes neither clarity nor gain

Unless friends fill its passion with their beauty.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Saying Thank You.

August 22: To Lose Someone Who’s Loved You AllYour Life

I Must Accept but Can't What Cannot Be

August 21, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is breaking up a love affair.

Today’s poem is about pain being a way of holding on to a former love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

I see you and my heart dissolves in pain.

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.

What happened to our love's a mystery.

I rummage through our empty past in vain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be:

That someone else now shares your off-hand "we,"

Now feels your tender tongue all feeling drain . . .

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.

I cannot lay aside my agony:

Again, again I play the same refrain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

And yet I know this tortured ecstasy

Is just my way of holding you again.

You are not dead, but you are dead to me,

And still I cannot bear to set you free,

That of our love some remnant might remain.

I must accept but can't what cannot be.

You are not dead, but you are dead to me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/imusta.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

August 15: Hold Me to Your Willing Heart

August 16: How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes

August 17: I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say I Love You

August 18: I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold

August 19: I Feel as Though My Heart Lay Bleeding

August 20: I Guess You Just Don’t Know How Much It Hurts

August 21: I Must Accept but Can’t What CannotBe

I Guess You Just Don't Know How Much It Hurts

August 20, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is breaking up a love affair.

Today’s poem is to a former lover about the selfishness of pretending to love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I guess you just don't know how much it hurts.

I cannot think you know and just don't care.

Destiny provides one's just deserts

By shaping one’s life just as would be fair.

Just as a child learns to its delight

That lying sets one fabulously free,

So you say "love" to get the rapture right,

Getting so the most you can from me.

And then, of course, you tire of your pleasure,

As those who seek but pleasure often do,

And sacrifice by far the greater treasure

Upon the altar where you worship you.

Justice would demand you be the fool,

But you are far more ignorant than cruel.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/iguess.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

August 15: Hold Me to Your Willing Heart

August 16: How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes

August 17: I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say I Love You

August 18: I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold

August 19: I Feel as Though My Heart Lay Bleeding

August 20: I Guess You Just Don’t Know How Much It Hurts

I Feel as Though My Heart Lay Bleeding

August 19, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is breaking up a love affair.

Today’s poem is about how it feels to break up.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I feel as though my heart lay bleeding

On a countertop.

The pain is like a flooded scream

That cannot, will not stop.

I cannot live, I cannot breathe;

Pain is all I do.

I cannot think how I can be

Long living without you.

Ah, God! I want you back so bad

That I would gladly die

To hold you in my arms again

And not care how or why;

To hold you in my arms again

And tell you of my love,

And then go gladly back to dust

Should I your heart not move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ifeel2.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

August 15: Hold Me to Your Willing Heart

August 16: How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes

August 17: I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say I Love You

August 18: I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold

August 19: I Feel as Though My Heart LayBleeding

I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold

August 18, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is breaking up a love affair.

Today’s poem is about not being able to decide whether to break up.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I do not mean to put our love on hold.

I really can't decide what I should do.

I don't like always running hot and cold,

But I don't know yet what I feel for you.

I am afraid of getting too involved

And then, perhaps, of causing greater pain.

It's easier to get this thing resolved,

Yet then I find I'm weeping once again.

If only life were walking on the beach,

Talking, laughing, holding honest hands,

With everything we want just out of reach,

And no sign of the lurking buts and ands.

If I could say just purely the word love,

Or bear to turn my back and say goodbye,

Then you and I could from this moment move,

And let ourselves at last rejoice or cry.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/idono3.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

August 15: Hold Me to Your Willing Heart

August 16: How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes

August 17: I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say I Love You

August 18: I Do Not Mean to Put Our Love on Hold

I Didn't Get a Chance to Say I Love You

August 17, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is breaking up a love affair.

Today’s poem is addressed to a former lover about the pain of a breakup.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I didn't get a chance to say I love you.

You were gone before we got that far.

All I know is now I really need you,

Yet when I look for you, you aren't there.

You said once that you never would forget me,

Yet how am I to know without you here?

Such emptiness! Like what I feel within me:

Neither flesh nor tears, just cold thin air.

Sometimes, alone, I feel your arms around me,

And all my need for you spills out in pain.

Jagged memories of you surround me.

I cannot think I won't see you again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ididnt.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

August 15: Hold Me to Your Willing Heart

August 16: How Did I Lose Your Baby Blue Eyes

August 17: I Didn’t Get a Chance to Say I LoveYou

Hold Me to Your Willing Heart

August 15, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is breaking up a love affair.

Today’s poem is about the need sometimes to let go of love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hold me to your willing heart

And let me - help me - weep

That I of need might fall apart

And then at last might sleep.

Let the truth slice into me

That I might finally bleed

And purge myself of agony

I cannot now concede.

For I have bound myself in light

That I might live in joy,

And cannot - will not - let the night

My bonds of love destroy.

And yet I know if I would gain

The peace for which I pray,

I must allow the floods of pain

To wash my love away.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/holdme.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Breaking Up a Love Affair.

August 15: Hold Me to Your Willing Heart