For All That You Have Given Me

March 31, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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

A Mother’s Day poem from an adopted daughter to her adoptive mother:

For all that you have given me,

I can return but love. For you

Bound up the wounds I did not see

And gave me hopes and passions new.

I can return but love for you,

Whose unmoved faith my heart did move,

And gave me hopes and passions new,

And loved me till I turned to love.

Whose unmoved faith did my heart move?

The mother of my heart, not blood,

Who loved me till I turned to love.

And I became the soul I would.

The mother of my heart, not blood,

Bound up the wounds I did not see.

And I became the soul I would

For all that you have given me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

3/31: For All That You Have Given Me

Happy Birthday, Dearest One

March 30, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is foster children and adoption.

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

A birthday poem to a newly-adopted child:

Happy birthday, dearest one,

Sweet child of my heart!

We've become one family,

Of which you are a part.

And so I sing out equally

To all of those who are

Mine by blood or fortune blessed,

No more, no less my star!

We are one in love and joy,

In fondness and in worth,

And so as one we celebrate

This day, your day of birth!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Foster Children and Adoption

3/30: Happy Birthday, Dearest One

For a Mother, a Daughter, a Teacher, and a Friend

March 29, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number and 50^th birthday poem of thanks to a cultivator of dreams:

For a mother, a daughter, a teacher, and a friend:

In your domain, dreams grow lush and tall.

For cultivating dreams has been your end

Through planting lovely gardens, great and small,

Yielding dreams that unify us all.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

3/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

3/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

3/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

3/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

3/27: For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

3/28: Crystal Loves the Waves

3/29: For a Mother, a Daughter, a Teacher, and a Friend

Crystal Loves the Waves

March 28, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday poem for a child whose mother is across an ocean on her birthday:

Crystal loves the waves

And takes them for a ride.

But just right now her mummy

Is on the other side.

As far as she can see

The waves break more and more.

But just right now her mummy

Is on the other shore.

It's a great big ocean

With lots of sharks and whales,

Octopus and sailboats

And big boats without sails,

Polar bears and penguins,

And lots and lots of fish.

But just right now Crystal

Would like to make one wish.

Crystal wishes that

The ocean were a puddle.

Then she could jump across,

And she and Mummy cuddle!

Wouldn't it be nice

If the ocean were a lake?

Then Crystal's mummy

Could have some birthday cake!

Crystal's mummy loves her,

But she is far away,

Far across the ocean

On Crystal's special day.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

3/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

3/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

3/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

3/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

3/27: For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

3/28: Crystal Loves the Waves

For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

March 27, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A number and 50^th birthday poem of thanks for a good parent:

For your fiftieth birthday let us sing!

In celebration let your loved ones dance!

Fair seedtime had our souls within your heart,

Taking joy from lucky circumstance.

You gave to us a gentle, loving spring.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

3/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

3/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

3/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

3/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

3/27: For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing

Birthdays Are the Tolling of

March 26, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday invitation in the form of a poem:

Birthdays are the tolling of

A bell that marks the coming of

A time of festive joy and love,

A time to treasure life and love.

So come and celebrate with me

The circumstance that makes me, me:

The moment when I came to be,

And what I now have come to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

5/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

5/25: Happy Birthday, Darling

5/26: Birthdays Are the Tolling of

Happy Birthday, Darling

March 25, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A birthday poem to a former lover who is now with someone else:

Happy birthday, darling!

Although you're not with me.

Right now you are with someone else

Temporarily.

I know I am the wild cat

Who'll get you in the end,

Not only your hot lover, but

Your best and truest friend.

So have a happy birthday

And remember my sweet kiss.

It's waiting for you when you turn

To me, your choice for bliss.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Birthdays

5/23: Birthdays Are a Annual Excuse

5/24: For You, My Love, the Happiest of Birthdays

5/25: Happy Birthday, Darling