Revel in Your Golden Years

January 7, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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A poem to someone who has just retired:

Revel in your golden years!

Enjoy them to the hilt!

Time has crossed an open sea

Impelled by restless winds.

Remember well the joys and tears,

Each passion run full tilt,

More pain and pleasure than might be

Endured, if not combined.

Now savor in tranquility

The things you leave behind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

Hope Is Not a Harbinger of Peace

January 6, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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A Happy New Year poem about necessary survival of hope and love in a world ruled by hatred and fear:

Hope is not a harbinger of peace

As countless holocausts have made quite clear.

Perhaps the unsolved problem is that fear

Prevents the heart from seeking its release.

Years pass; we come no closer to the good,

Nor do we better understand why we

Each year have hope to live in harmony

While watering our fields with tears and blood.

Yet hope remains, and love, that hope revives.

Each knows well that hatred is insane,

And hates and fears and loves and hates again,

Resolving ever to keep hope alive.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

1/4: Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

1/5: Here We Have Another New Beginning

1/6: Hope Is Not a Harbinger of Peace

Here We Have Another New Beginning

January 5, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A more cynical Happy New Year poem about understanding that things won’t change:

Here we have another new beginning,

Another chance to be what we are not.

Praised be those who recognize the rot,

Portion out the guilt, and go on living.

Years change far more frequently than we,

Nor are our changes more than painted screens,

Each placed to maximize our meager means,

Windows on a world that none can see.

Yet, truth be told, we know well what's within.

Each resolution fails to touch the heart,

As in the end we are, as at the start,

Remorseful reprobates, half hope, half sin.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

1/4: Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

1/5: Here We Have Another New Beginning

Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

January 4, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem about the need for innocence at least once a year:

Harbingers of happiness, awake!

And dreams abandoned, return from restless sleep!

Past hopes, whom bitter wanderers forsake,

Promise once again what will might reap!

Years turn and turn, at each new turn reborn,

New imagined by redeemers new,

Each in turn vouchsafed a festive dawn,

Wind driven towards a sky of darker hue.

Yearning is of innocence a cause,

Embracing with delight what ought to be,

As once a year even truth takes pause,

Reflecting on what other eyes might see.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

1/4: Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

Happy New Year, Darling

January 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem love poem:

Happy New Year, darling!

Another year gone by!

Peeling off the onion,

Pausing just to cry.

Yet what could be more lovely?

Nestled into need,

Embracing while dancing

Wherever life may lead.

Yearning is a blessing

Even though we have

All we've ever yearned for,

Rendered us by love.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

January 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem about the morality of wishing those in misery well:

Happy New Year! To those who will have none,

A wish that knows too well it cannot be.

Perhaps one ought not wish so futilely;

Perhaps one ought, that such not be alone.

Yearning is the price one pays for hope,

Nor can one hope unless one would endure.

Each futile wish makes paradise more sure,

Widening the world's supernal scope.

Yet there are those who find such wishes cheap,

Easy substitutes for sacrifice.

A wish for good is more than merely nice,

Restoring winds that stir the unguent deep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

Happiness Is Wholly in One's Power

January 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem using a musical metaphor to describe the relationship between fate and will :

Happiness is wholly in one's power

As one provides the chords to fit the tune,

Pleased to play sweet music by the hour,

Pleased to harmonize one's passing gloom.

Yet there are days demanding dissonance,

Needing harsh accompaniment to pain.

Embrace them, then, and give them resonance,

With brass enough to brighten a refrain.

Years are symphonies of varied mood,

Each sketched out by fate, filled in by you.

As the woodwinds dance, the basses brood,

Resolved in beauty - crafted, yes, but true.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power