Here Again We Have a New Beginning

December 31, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is new beginnings, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem is a New Year’s poem about beginning repeatedly at the start of each new year.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here again we have a new beginning,

An old refrain to start a brand-new verse.

Perhaps the belly droops, the hair is thinning;

Perhaps each year the memory gets worse.

Yet new beginnings always start with hope,

Needing hope to nurture innocence,

Endeavoring to find a way to cope

When nothing deeply thought about makes sense.

Years come and go; Eden doesn’t change.

Each new year we toddle forth again,

Afoot into a world that’s ever strange,

Restored by some great turning tide within.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 26: Iven Lee

December 27: Sixty-Six3

December 28: Fifty-Two4

December 29: Thirteen2

December 30: Welcome to Our Family

December 31: Here Again We Have a New Beginning

Welcome to Our Family

December 30, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is new beginnings, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem welcomes a newborn into his or her adoptive family.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Welcome to our family,

Dear child of our hearts!

Welcome to the bond of love

Of which you now are part.

Welcome to our waiting arms

That will your world enfold.

Welcome to our way of life

That will your future mold.

Welcome to our hopes and dreams,

Our faults and foibles, too,

For some of our soul-seeds, hand sown,

Will bear sweet fruit in you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/welco5.html. For more poems about adoption, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/adoptionpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 26: Iven Lee

December 27: Sixty-Six3

December 28: Fifty-Two4

December 29: Thirteen2

December 30: Welcome to Our Family

Thirteen2

December 29, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is new beginnings, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem is a number poem for someone about to enter adolescence.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thirteen is a very lucky age!

Hope runs strong as brand-new powers emerge.

In thought and feeling one has turned a page,

Revealing childish pleasures one would purge.

The future is a large and empty room,

Easy enough to furnish with one’s dreams!

Eventually, one’s brightest flowers will bloom.

Now best friends forever share their schemes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/52d.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 26: Iven Lee

December 27: Sixty-Six3

December 28: Fifty-Two4

December 29: Thirteen2

Fifty-Two4

December 28, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is new beginnings, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem is a number poem for someone about to begin a new career.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fifty-two is ready to begin,

Invested in a new and bright career.

Futures are incorrigibly uncertain,

Tending to inspire both hope and fear.

Yet she finds the wherewithal within.

There is neither lock nor code nor curtain

Where her source of strength has always been,

Open to whoever would come near.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/52d.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 26: Iven Lee

December 27: Sixty-Six3

December 28: Fifty-Two4

Sixty-Six3

December 27, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is new beginnings, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem is a number poem for someone just recently retired.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sixty-six is happily retired,

Immersed in interests she has long enjoyed.

X-ray well her will and you will find

That none of its resolve has been destroyed.

Yet now a bit less shuffling is required.

So has her leisure left her spirit buoyed,

In labor lost, but of a different kind,

Xerophyte in bloom, by grace inspired.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/66c.html. For more number poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 26: Iven Lee

December 27: Sixty-Six3

Iven Lee

December 26, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is new beginnings, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem is a name poem for new-born child who has been named for someone else.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Iven Lee's a newborn,

Very much adored.

Each soul just coming through the door,

Named for one who came before,

Lives within a chord,

Each note from some heart torn,

Each motion something more.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 26: Iven Lee

Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love

December 25, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since Christmas falls on a Monday this year, we’ll have one more Christmas poem for today and then begin the theme of new beginnings tomorrow, in honor of the New Year.

Today’s poem is a Christmas poem to a child about the importance of giving at Christmas.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Christmas is a song of joy and love,

However it is sung, however rendered,

Rich source of childhood pleasures that will prove

In later life a lesson long remembered.

So may you share the joys of Christmas time,

Though still a child, by giving more and more,

Making child and adult combine

As slowly, slowly you approach that door,

Surer of what giving might be for.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/chris4.html. For more Christmas poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/christmaspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Christmas/New Beginnings

December 25: Christmas Is a Song of Joy and Love