Marriage, as a Choice, Requires Choices

January 14, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is from wife to husband vowing to overcome marital difficulties.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Marriage, as a choice, requires choices.

One must choose not once, but every day.

Life offers us a hundred thousand voices,

Yet those we fail to hear fast fade away.

I choose you with all my wounded heart:

You and our two children. All the rest

Lies in the distance, charming, but apart

From the circle of the ones with whom I'm blessed.

Our marriage isn't easy, but our love

Is still the force that shapes my daily life.

I want us to be happy, and will move

Wherever I must be to be your wife.

I'm yours, and I want you to be mine.

We'll find a way our wishes to combine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/marri2.html. For more poems about marriage, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/marriagepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

January 10: Joy Is in the Simple Things

January 11: Life Sings with an Extraordinary Passion

January 12: Love Finds Little Latitude

January 13: Love Returns on Saturdays

January 14: Marriage, as a Choice, RequiresChoices

Love Returns on Saturdays

January 13, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about love on the weekend.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Love returns on Saturdays,

Having been away

To labor in the labyrinth

That underlies our joy.

How dark the days of abstinence,

Of sleep too dire to stay,

Of mornings mere mechanical

And flesh no hands employ!

But then--Ah, then!--on Saturdays

Love finally has its way,

Coming into crevices

Whose cravings passions buoy.

How beautiful, the love that can

Such soporifics sway!

No wasteland world of weekdays shall

Our dalliance destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/lover2.html. For more poems about marriage, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/marriagepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

January 10: Joy Is in the Simple Things

January 11: Life Sings with an Extraordinary Passion

January 12: Love Finds Little Latitude

January 13: Love Returns on Saturdays

Love Finds Little Latitude

January 12, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem compares marriage to leaving the sea for a safe harbor.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Love finds little latitude

Once it leaves the sea

And sails between the rocky heads

That guard its proper berth.

Precise in pitch and attitude,

It must turn perfectly

To miss the sharp-edged coral beds

Garlanding its girth.

The wind still blows, the waves still roll

Out where the water's deep,

But here within, a tidal peace

Reverses with the moon.

Here is the elusive goal,

Too permanent to keep,

That sits in small print on the lease

Of those who dock at noon.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

January 10: Joy Is in the Simple Things

January 11: Life Sings with an Extraordinary Passion

January 12: Love Finds Little Latitude

Life Sings with an Extraordinary Passion

January 11, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about marriage as paradise.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Life sings with an extraordinary passion,

Intent on being all one can afford.

For those who let their love their fortune fashion,

Eden is indeed a just reward.

So might we live in paradise unending

If only we would see the salient sea,

Needing need with honesty unbending,

Grace to love so long and well that we,

Singing each to each, might simply be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

January 10: Joy Is in the Simple Things

January 11: Life Sings with an ExtraordinaryPassion

Joy Is in the Simple Things

January 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name poem with advice on how to find joy in marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Joy is in the simple things: touching,

Embracing, chattering on for hours about nothing,

Sure of your place within another's heart.

Simple things: like coming home knowing

Exactly where the treasure lies; like being

At ease with what you do and who you are;

Needing what you already have; accepting,

Desiring what you have been given; feeling

The gratitude of someone who is loved;

Investing goodness instead of money; giving

For the pleasure of giving pleasure; seeing

Fortune come to take you in its arms.

All this joy is yours for the price of loving,

Not only well but long, days of willing,

Years and years of wise and patient love.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

January 10: Joy Is in the Simple Things

Jody and Blue

January 9, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about how love can overcome the limitations and frustrations of marriage.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Jody and Blue have a great deal to do

On their way to be blissfully wed,

Determined to be repossessed by the sea

Yet confining themselves to one bed.

Bright days and nights can be had without lights;

Love works well, if by will, in the dark.

Undoing the pain of frustration and strain,

Each arrow finds always its mark.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Marriage

January 9: Jody and Blue

The Point of Life Is that There Is No Point

January 8, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphanies, in honor of the Christian holiday of Epiphany, which falls on January 6.

In Christianity, Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, celebrates the coming of the Magi to see the infant Christ in Bethlehem. But the word epiphany refers to any sudden insight or realization. This week’s poems will relate to epiphany in both of its meanings.

Today’s poem is a number poem about the need to create rather than discover one’s epiphanies.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

The point of life is that there is no point.

We find our meaning in that lack of meaning.

Each is therefore free to choose a mission,

Needing something more than mere ambition,

The pursuit of which can often seem redeeming.

Yet some would their uncertainties anoint.

Freedom doesn't disappear with choice.

In being one, one cannot help be free.

Vast the view, and miniscule the voice,

Even as the voice makes meaning be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/thepo3.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Epiphanies

January 2: Every Child Might Redeem Your Soul

January 3: The Meaning of Eternity

January 4: Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending

January 5: Aaron

January 6: Epiphanies Come and Go

January 7: Eager for a Miracle

January 8: The Point of Life Is that There Is NoPoint