Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World

September 29, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem welcomes a child into the world.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Welcome to this wide-eyed world,

This loving, gentle wonderland,

Where fluffy lambs lie near at hand,

Their ears in tiny fingers curled;

Where one comes well equipped with toes

And fingers one can use to clutch

And rub and scratch and feel and touch

One’s soft cheek, one’s crusty nose.

What magic in the moment!

What delight in joy!

Life dances through the morning

Of a little boy.

What ebb and flow of feeling

Beneath an inner moon!

A symphony of senses,

A rich, rhapsodic tune!

Welcome to this wide-eyed world,

Where everything is dark and light,

Where faces smile day and night

And beam as one’s own smile unfurls;

Where love begins its ancient song

As one is kissed, caressed, and held,

Each pain allayed, each hunger quelled,

The love bonds woven thick and strong,

The love bonds thick and strong.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/welco4.html. For more poems about pregnancy and childbirth, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/birthpregnancypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 28: I Have Some Information for Your Files

September 29: Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World

I Have Some Information for Your Files

September 28, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem announces a pregnancy through its acrostic.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I have some information for your files,

A tidbit that might underline your day,

Most suited to the gentlest of smiles:

Please mark before you file it away.

Regarding information: some may render

Every passion previous absurd,

Giving your experience a splendor

New risen with the wonder of a word.

All you've ever known or has occurred

Now will be transfigured instantly:

To process, read the left side vertically.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ihaves.html. For more poems about pregnancy and childbirth, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/birthpregnancypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 28: I Have Some Information for YourFiles

Hallelujah! I'm Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 27, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem thanks God for a pregnancy.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hallelujah! I'm pregnant! Praise the Lord!

For the Lord has quickened my womb! With my husband,

Of course, and Dr. Heller, who quickened the sperm.

Which makes it no less a miracle.

For the Lord has quickened my womb! With my husband

I thank Him and science both, and bless them.

Which makes it no less a miracle

Of the Lord, Who works through the works of our hands.

I thank Him and science both, and bless them.

With science I have but a passing acquaintance.

Of the Lord Who works through the works of our hands,

Of the Lord I sing all the words in my heart!

With science I have but a passing acquaintance,

Of course, and Dr. Heller, who quickened the sperm.

Of the Lord I sing all the words in my heart:

Hallelujah! I'm pregnant! Praise the Lord!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/hallel.html. For more poems about pregnancy and childbirth, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/birthpregnancypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

A Universe, a Little Boy

September 26, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about waiting for a baby boy to be born.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

A universe, a little boy,

A bear pretending it’s a toy,

A rattle ready to bring joy,

All soon, yes, soon will meet.

Some tiny clothes, an empty room,

A wind-up lamb, a tinkling tune,

A soul that will be ready soon,

Yes, yes, they all will meet.

And when they meet, what wonder!

What worlds within that grasp!

What will those eyes discover

When they can see at last?

A waiting crib, a family

With dreams enough of what will be,

A gift whose grace none can foresee,

Soon, soon they all will meet,

Yes, soon they all will meet.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/aunive.html. For more poems about pregnancy and childbirth, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/birthpregnancypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

There Is No Treasure Greater than Your Love

September 25, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number and love poem about love as the water that makes life bloom.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is no treasure greater than your love,

However rich or bountiful your life.

It is the spring that wells up in your garden,

Replenishing the mother and the wife;

The joy that makes a pleasure of your burden,

Yielding happiness that time will prove.

Nor is love proof against travail and strife.

Instead, it is but tears with yearning laden,

Nile through the desert, green and brazen,

Edged with life, where all things near might bloom.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/isno3.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Romantic Love.

September 19: Dreams Do Come True

September 20: Gifts Are Not Always Free

September 21: Love Is Never Easy

September 22: Passion May Remain a Gift

September 23: What Is the Sign of Love That Tells Me When

September 24: Truth Is Rarely an Expression of Love

September 25: There Is No Treasure Greater thanYour Love

Truth Is Rarely an Expression of Love

September 24, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number and love poem about truth in love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Truth is rarely an expression of love:

Honesty most often precedes pain.

In hope there is the fragrance of illusion;

Romance requires the charm of light confusion;

The best lovers are criminally insane.

Yet lies, eventually, will suck out passion.

One must be truthful if one hopes to love:

Not cruelly, but enough to ease delusion.

Each love must be broken, then built back 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/trurar.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Romantic Love.

September 19: Dreams Do Come True

September 20: Gifts Are Not Always Free

September 21: Love Is Never Easy

September 22: Passion May Remain a Gift

September 23: What Is the Sign of Love That Tells Me When

September 24: Truth Is Rarely an Expression ofLove

What Is the Sign of Love That Tells Me When

September 23, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a teenage love poem asking how one might know one is in love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

What is the sign of love that tells me when

A friendship and a crush are something more?

How can I know what life may have in store

When all the clues must lie beyond my ken?

How much happiness is love? And then

How much and long must it endure before

I recognize that strange and distant shore

Beyond which I won't have to ask again?

I do not know, but trust that when I do

The answer will surround me like old fields

On which the things I hunger for will grow.

For now I share the mystery with you,

Waiting for what young affection yields,

And for the time when both of us will know.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/whati2.html. For more love poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/lovepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Romantic Love.

September 19: Dreams Do Come True

September 20: Gifts Are Not Always Free

September 21: Love Is Never Easy

September 22: Passion May Remain a Gift

September 23: What Is the Sign of Love ThatTells Me When