I Look at You and Think: I Cannot Live

February 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is about the need to express one’s love through poetry.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I look at you and think: I cannot live

Without you; you're the person of my dreams.

Of course I know I can, but I must give

My heart room to tell it as it seems.

Romance must have a language fit for feeling

More than fits between the earth and sky.

For love there cannot be a floor or ceiling:

My love goes down too deep and flies too high.

So when I say I cannot live without you,

Know I can't imagine so much pain;

And when I claim to always dream about you,

Well, know the moon is happy once again.

The sun reveals cold truths for all to see,

But I must light my love with poetry.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Romantic Love

February 6: I Look at You and Think: I CannotLive

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 30: Friends Are Prisoners of Expectation

January 31: Twenty-Seven

February 1: Thirty-Seven

February 2: Ainsley

February 3: There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat

February 4: Anisa

February 5: Forty-Five

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 30: Friends Are Prisoners of Expectation

January 31: Twenty-Seven

February 1: Thirty-Seven

February 2: Ainsley

February 3: There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat

February 4: Anisa