I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

July 24, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem apologizing for an indiscretion:

I know I must have hurt you, caused you pain.

More, I know that I have lost your trust.

I wish I had that moment back again

To pulverize my carelessness and lust.

Sometimes we have to lose what we most cherish

To understand how much we are in need.

We play with life until we nearly perish

To dare the darkness, though within we bleed.

I need you as the sun must have a rose

To turn its empty radiance to glory,

Or as a ruin needs someone who knows

The secrets of its long-forgotten story.

I know my need of you more than before;

Thus for my trespass you may trust me more.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

7/24: I Know I Must Have Hurt You, Caused You Pain

There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

July 23, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A love poem about the variety of ways in which one loves:

There are many, many ways in which I love you,

As many ways as there are me's and you's:

Some pure, some not so pure, some hard above you,

Some soft and sweet below, some--well, you choose!

We're animal and human and divine

All wrapped in one confused and messed-up ball.

I think sometimes with me it would be fine

If God would just decide to chuck it all.

But see the varied avenues of pleasure

Our multi-layered beings can enjoy!

Your flesh and heart equally I treasure

With all the pent-up anguish of a boy.

I long for both your body and your face;

I need both warmth and heat in your embrace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

7/23: There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You

There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

July 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number and love poem about the color of a loved one’s eyes:

There is a beauty in the color brown

Which brings to mind the quiet warmth of sharing.

Earth tones: roots, ground leafmeal, seeds, and soil;

Nuts and bark, broad rivers thick with toil;

Tree trunks in a clearing, nothing wearing,

Yet holding high their interwoven crown.

For me brown brings to mind your caring eyes,

Innocent and gentle as a doe's.

Vested in your love, my own love grows;

Each thought, each hope, each breath within you lies.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Love

7/22: There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown

To Be in Full Bloom Is Not Always Easy

July 21, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is being in one’s twenties.

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

A number poem about the pleasures and difficulties of being twenty-seven:

To be in full bloom is not always easy:

When at an apex, one has intimations.

Each stage of life is equally precious,

No number of years makes a glance less infectious,

The child unchanging through all perturbations.

Yet there is that which might make a rose queasy.

So naked the night! So painfully luscious!

Each moment limned by unclouded sensations!

Vicissitudes waiting, felicities breezy,

Each day brings one closer to one's limitations:

Never so perfect a time to perplex us!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Being in One’s Twenties

7/15: Twenty Is a Bud That’s Finally Flowered

7/16: Tough and Lovely

7/17: Twenty-Two Worries About Earth

7/18: The Center Stage Is Empty

7/19: Twenty-Five Has Come into Her Own

7/20: Twenty-Six Reserves the Right to Change

7/21: To Be in Full Bloom Is Not Always Easy

Twenty-Six Reserves the Right to Change

July 20, 2019 

Dear Subscriber: 

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is being in one’s twenties. 

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

A number poem about how time begins to narrow one’s possibilities: 

Twenty-six reserves the right to change, 

Well aware the years are in her favor. 

Even as her possibilities 

Narrow to reflect her qualities, 

The open space is something she can savor, 

Young enough to range and rearrange. 

Still, the touch of passing time is strange, 

Interrogating sensibilities, 

X-ing out unsuitable behavior. 

© by Nicholas Gordon 

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This week’s theme: Being in One’s Twenties 

7/15: Twenty Is a Bud That’s Finally Flowered 

7/16: Tough and Lovely 

7/17: Twenty-Two Worries About Earth 

7/18: The Center Stage Is Empty 

7/19: Twenty-Five Has Come into Her Own 

7/20: Twenty-Six Reserves the Right to Change

Twenty-Five Has Come into Her Own

July 19, 2019 

Dear Subscriber: 

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is being in one’s twenties. 

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

A number poem about reaching maturity: 

Twenty-five has come into her own, 

Wise enough to winnow what she dreams. 

Even in the landscape of her face 

No destination but has found its place, 

Though growing up is harder than it seems. 

Yearnings do not die through will alone. 

For now there is a firmness in her tone 

Indicative of some internal grace 

Vividly attentive in its space, 

Elegant and certain what it means. 

© by Nicholas Gordon 

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This week’s theme: Being in One’s Twenties 

7/15: Twenty Is a Bud That’s Finally Flowered 

7/16: Tough and Lovely 

7/17: Twenty-Two Worries About Earth 

7/18: The Center Stage Is Empty 

7/19: Twenty-Five Has Come into Her Own