Sunday, February 5, 2017

Forty-Five4



February 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number and friendship poem about the need to limit one’s friendships.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-five comes home to many places,
Opening her heart again, again,
Returning, turning to a field of faces
That wait to greet her as a dear old friend.
Yet she knows which ones she needs to tend.
Friendships shouldn’t be a load of cases
In which the labor overtakes the end.
Vistas must retain their open spaces,
Enduring grace on which all eyes depend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/45d.html. For more friendship poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/friendshippoems.html .

This week’s theme: Friendship
January 31: Twenty-Seven
February 1: Thirty-Seven
February 2: Ainsley
February 4: Anisa
February 5: Forty-Five

Friday, February 3, 2017

Anisa



February 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a name and friendship poem about someone who can't comprehend using friendship for personal gain.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Anisa is a universal friend,
Nor does she need a reason for her smile.
Intimacy is for her a style
So natural she cannot comprehend
A world in which such warmth might serve an end.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Friendship
January 31: Twenty-Seven
February 1: Thirty-Seven
February 2: Ainsley
February 4: Anisa

Thursday, February 2, 2017

There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat



February 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number and friendship poem comparing our need for friendship to that of a pet cat.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is no better mentor than a cat,
Here for little else than giving love,
Intended as a playmate and a friend,
Roles that all should play if in the end
They would know joy they could be certain of.
Yet some look down their noses at all that.

No one need one’s deepest need defend.
If one’s alive, then one will needy prove.
Nor need one hold one’s need at one remove,
Enduring needlessly an empty lap.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ther39.html. For more friendship poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/friendshippoems.html .

This week’s theme: Friendship
January 31: Twenty-Seven
February 1: Thirty-Seven
February 2: Ainsley
February 3: There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat