Forty-Seven3

May 5, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about accepting even non-acceptance.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-seven contemplates her fate,
Old enough to know just what is what,
Revisiting the windings of the way
That led her to this not-unwelcome state,
Yet yearning now and then for what is not.

So does one listen for the lilt of longing
Even when essentially at peace,
Vested in what one knows will decay,
Enduring, dreaming, suffering, desiring.
Nor would one for one’s soul such music cease.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 3: Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

May 4: Fortune Leaves No Reason for Regret

May 5: Forty-Seven3

Fortune Leaves No Reason for Regret

May 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about fantasy and acceptance.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fortune leaves no reason for regret.

In what one has there is unbearable beauty.

For every moment sings with unfelt joy,

Though some would drown their sorrows in self-pity,

Yearning for whatever they can’t get.

Fantasies, of course, continue, yet

One finds good sustenance in their employ,

Uniting hope with fact and dreams with duty,

Rich sense of self that one ought not forget.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 3: Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

May 4: Fortune Leaves No Reason for Regret

Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

May 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about seeing grace even in a painful past.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Future selves are built on past mistakes.

One is the sum of what one was, and yet

Retains a bit of undetermined space,

The power to be different, as the net,

Years on, becomes a filigree of lace.

So might one see that everything has grace,

Including all the pain one would forget,

X-ing out nothing, with nothing to regret.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 3: Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes

Fortune Is like Music Minus One

May 2, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about how one might shape the music of one’s fortune.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fortune is like music minus one:

One adds one’s voice to what one has been given.

Remember that, in either rain or sun,

The part one plays should be by beauty driven,

Yearning that will one’s whole session run.

So might one’s music mingle pain and joy,

Engaged in harmony that heals the heart,

Vested in what will one’s loved ones buoy,

Embracing truth with all one’s well-honed art.

Nor need one’s fate one’s happiness destroy.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 2: Fortune Is like Music Minus One

For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

May 1, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

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

Today’s poem is a number poem about how life answers one’s embrace.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For those who love, things tend to matter more.

In paradise, one has much to lose.

Feelings race like birds upon the shore,

Tallying the risks one can’t refuse,

Yearning for what one is free to choose.

Embracing what one is, one has, one loves

Is what evokes an answering embrace.

Glory comes and goes; acceptance proves

Hardier than passion, time, or place,

The silent turn that yields the gift of grace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Acceptance

May 1: For Those Who Love, Things Tend to Matter More

Lauren

April 30, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is trees in honor of Arbor Day, which was celebrated on April 28.

Today’s poem is a name poem, comparing a woman to a grove of ancient trees.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Lauren is a grove of ancient trees.

Around her is the hush before the word--

Unfinished, like a fluttering of wings.

Resisting words, she shelters wide-eyed things,

Easy in the twilight, as a bird

Nestles in against a cold, dark breeze.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Trees

April 24: Find Your Perfect Mentor in a Tree

April 25: For Someone Who Devotes His Life to Trees

April 26: A Tree Is like a Frozen Dancer

April 27: All of Us Can Take Our Cue from Trees

April 28: A Tree Is a Gigantic Hand

April 29: No Matter How We Have Fought, We Will Always Be Sisters

April 30: Lauren

No Matter How We Have Fought, We Will Always Be Sisters

April 29, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is trees in honor of Arbor Day, which is celebrated today, April 28.

Today’s poem is a wedding poem comparing two sisters to two trees planted close together.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

No matter how we have fought, we will always be sisters.

Neither marriage nor distance nor children will change

The frictional fondness, part balm and part blisters,

No dawn can diminish nor passion make strange.

Like two trees with their wrestling roots underground,

Fighting for sun while restraining the wind,

By close and protracted proximity bound,

We've been shaped by a force that no fate can rescind.

And so it's with undaunted pleasure that I

Bid farewell to a part of myself, for I know

That beyond the illusions of what, when, and why,

We'll be together wherever we go.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/nomatt.html. For more wedding poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/weddingpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Trees

April 24: Find Your Perfect Mentor in a Tree

April 25: For Someone Who Devotes His Life to Trees

April 26: A Tree Is like a Frozen Dancer

April 27: All of Us Can Take Our Cue from Trees

April 28: A Tree Is a Gigantic Hand

April 29: No Matter How We Have Fought, We WillAlways Be Sisters