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

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 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

Ainsley

February 2, 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 a friend who is like home.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Ainsley is a place called home,

In which one finds a fire,

Needing warmth and friendship to

Sustain one's life-desire.

Let him, let him give you space,

Ever safe in his embrace,

Yet ever free to roam.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ainsle.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

Thirty-Seven7

February 1, 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 ancestral roots of online friendships.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thirty-seven shares her life online,

Having much to say to her close friends.

Intimacy makes the heart unfold,

Radiant beneath love's liquid gold,

The sunlight that a simple thumbs up sends,

Yielding of sweet sympathy a sign.

Sing, then, of love that's neither yours nor mine,

Enduring as a gift none comprehends,

Vested in our character of old,

Embrace on which our sanity depends,

Now virtual, served deftly by design.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/37g.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

Twenty-Seven4

January 31, 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 online friendships and the interdependence of selves.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Twenty-seven's often found online

Writing to her followers and friends.

Each thought leaps from her fingers into time,

Now urgent in a stream that twists and bends,

The conduit on which the heart depends,

Yearning for a grace it can't define.

Selves are not themselves till they combine,

Each needing something yours to mirror mine,

Vetting visions through another's lens,

Ending where who knows a person ends,

Never more than I nor less than thine.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/27d.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

Friends Are Prisoners of Expectation

January 30, 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 about the mutual need for others in order to be oneself.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Friends are prisoners of expectation,

Reflected in the mirror of their need.

Instead of being happy on their own,

Each knows that one cannot survive alone,

Nor think unless another plants the seed.

Dependent all for selfhood on relation,

So to be fed, must one the other feed.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/frien2.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