Forty-Four5

August 26, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is psychology.

Today’s poem is a number and psychological poem about taking some time to be alone.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Forty-four, immersed in vivid life,

Old enough yet young enough to be

Responsible to husband, child, and home,

Takes pleasure in her roles as mom and wife

Yet reserves some time to be alone.

For one can serve oneself unselfishly,

Organ of a music all one’s own,

Uniting strains of harmony and strife,

Resonance that sings across one's sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/44e.html. For more psychological poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/psychologicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Psychology

August 21: Meredith

August 22: Family Is a Rescue Squad in Waiting

August 23: Fifty-One3

August 24: Thirty8

August 25: Thirty-Four6

August 26: Forty-Four5

Thirty-Four6

August 25, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is psychology.

Today’s poem is a number and psychological poem about being comfortable in one’s inner home.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thirty-four has found her inner home,

Happy in her own well-tended space,

Inviting friends to drop in on their way,

Relishing the doldrums of the day,

Taking pleasure in each moment's grace,

Yet as content in company as alone.

For one must have such comfort to embrace

Oneself, and put one’s passions into play.

Ultimately one must, though one may roam,

Remain at last, perplexed or pleased, in place.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/34f.html. For more psychological poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/psychologicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Psychology

August 21: Meredith

August 22: Family Is a Rescue Squad in Waiting

August 23: Fifty-One3

August 24: Thirty8

August 25: Thirty-Four6

Thirty8

August 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is psychology.

Today’s poem is a number and psychological poem about choosing wisely what is most meaningful.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thirty knows quite well what binds one fast,

Having both received and given love.

In what one chooses is what one will be,

Regretting much, of course, but hopefully

The person one's best instincts will approve,

Yearning always for the things that last.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/30h.html. For more psychological poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/psychologicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Psychology

August 21: Meredith

August 22: Family Is a Rescue Squad in Waiting

August 23: Fifty-One3

August 24: Thirty8

Fifty-One3

August 23, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is psychology.

Today’s poem is a number and psychological poem about the need to embrace multiple selves.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fifty-one reviews her long-past choices,

Interested in knowing who she is.

Fortune is the child of self in ways

That one can neither understand nor phrase,

Yet must accept in searches such as this.

One is, of course, a choir of many voices,

Not just one, one might condemn or praise,

Embracing all, redemptive and remiss.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/51c.html. For more psychological poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/psychologicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Psychology

August 21: Meredith

August 22: Family Is a Rescue Squad in Waiting

August 23: Fifty-One3

Family Is a Rescue Squad in Waiting

August 22, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is psychology.

Today’s poem is a number and psychological poem about the difficulties and rewards of family.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Family is a rescue squad in waiting.

One knows there'll be an answer to one's call.

Rest assured there is sufficient love

To water well the wastelands of us all.

Yet simple truths can sometimes bear restating.

Fear not, then, what fortune might befall,

Or what regrets show no signs of abating.

Understand the long-term love that proves

Resilient through the roughhouse of relating.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Psychology

August 21: Meredith

August 22: Family Is a Rescue Squad in Waiting

Meredith

August 21, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is psychology.

Today’s poem is a name and psychological poem about an unfortunately common modern type.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Meredith has never been marooned,

Even though it sometimes feels like that.

Relationships have dwindled to one cat,

Even as her inbox has ballooned.

Deep into the night she crunches numbers,

Intelligent, industrious, alone,

Talking only business on the phone,

Hard at rest but briefly when she slumbers.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Psychology

August 21: Meredith

Twenty-Two Years Later They Were Dead

August 20, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is divorce.

Today’s poem is about two former spouses who never managed to get over their divorce.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Twenty-two years later they were dead

And nothing was resolved, nor would it be.

Life, as is its wont, had gone ahead,

But both of them, though freed, were never free.

Both remarried, loved, fell ill, and died,

Buried separately, with space reserved

For those who mourned them most, the two outside

What once was home but could not be preserved.

What bitterness and blame, forgiveness, rage,

Guilt, shame, fury, impotence, and sorrow

Sloshed against the walls of each's cage,

A storm that never yielded to tomorrow.

How beautiful and sad, the love of youth

That, though it could not last, outlasts the truth.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/22year.html. For more divorce poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/divorcepoems.html .

This week’s theme: Divorce

August 14: We’ll Go On, After You

August 15: Friends Go In and Out of People’s Lives

August 16: Hardly a Day Goes By that I Don’t Think of You

August 17: Jim Has Blue Eyes Flecked with Gold

August 18: Love Undoes Its Heritage Quite Slowly

August 19: There Is No Mountain Higher than the Wall

August 20: Twenty-Two Years Later They Were Dead