Poem of the Week

June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 17: Hold On to What You Know – That You’re in Love

Father's Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 16, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for an uncle.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Father's Day is not meant just for fathers.

An uncle, too, can claim his just reward.

The child has a need for loving men,

However they may be akin, and when

Each grows into adulthood, has a word

Required to describe a model other,

Singing just the name to hear the chord.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fath10.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

June 15, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem about the pain and beauty of the relation between father and child.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fathers vest themselves in a relation,

And, as we know, relationships can change.

The hot and cold are often in rotation.

Heartache’s not a place one should find strange.

Each love can be a corridor for pain,

Reopening a door that had been closed.

‘Mid need and fear one loves again, again,

Sacrificing more than one supposed.

Do, then, love not for the joy but for

A gift of self that makes one’s being more,

Yielding grace that none but love sustains.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathe9.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood

June 14, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for a divorced father who does not have custody of his child.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forget the fantasies of fatherhood

And take a look at what your life has wrought.

The choices you have made, both good and bad,

Have added up to … Well, you can add.

Enduring love will bring what you have sought,

Regardless of the pain the years have brought,

Sustaining what can only end in good.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/forge4.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

Monday, June 12, 2017

Fortune's a Chameleon, Changing Shade

June 13, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem advising a father to appreciate his good fortune.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fortune’s a chameleon, changing shade

As one embraces, or does not, one’s fate.

Ties that bind one to an ordered life –

Having children with a loving wife –

Endure, though passions pale and friendships fade.

Remember, then, to hug the life you made,

Singing, singing as you celebrate.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fortu6.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 12, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for an expectant father who sees his father as the giant he will soon be.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fathers are the giants of our lives,

Atlases who once held up our worlds.

They do not shrink as we increase in size,

However handsomely our lives unfurl.

Even when we know them for themselves,

Reducing them to their humanity,

‘Mid myth and memory we are still elves,

Still small beside the giants we still see.

Do, then, both enjoy your coming state

And know you will reprise your father’s fate,

Yearning for the giant you will be.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathe8.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day