Thank You for Loving Us

April 5, 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 thank-you poem from adopted siblings to their adoptive parents:

Thank you for loving us,

Having us in.

All you have given

Now we hold within,

Kids out in limbo

You made your own,

Or else we might still be

Unloved and alone.

© 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

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

4/2: Love Has Never Been About the Genes

4/3: Happiness Lies Just This Side of Heartache

4/4: Happy Birthday, Mother of

4/5: Thank You for Loving Us

Happy Birthday, Mother of

April 4, 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 from an adopted daughter to her newly-discovered birth mother:

Happy birthday, mother of

A dream undreamed, unveiled at last,

Portion of a past unpassed,

Part I'd not partaken of,

Yet one in which my self was cast.

Before I knew of you, I knew

Inside myself your whispered word,

Remembering what I'd never heard,

The me that was exactly you.

How glad I am that we now share

Directly that long love unseen,

A gift from you that's always been,

Yet now for me is always there.

© 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

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

4/2: Love Has Never Been About the Genes

4/3: Happiness Lies Just This Side of Heartache

4/4: Happy Birthday, Mother of

Happiness Lies Just This Side of Heartache

April 3, 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 Father’s Day poem from an adopted child to his or her adoptive father:

Happiness lies just this side of heartache,

As both are set aflame by one desire.

Perhaps one would best never light that fire,

Pursuing pleasure purely for its own sake.

Yet joy can be as fragile as a snowflake,

Full as oceans, brutal as barbed wire.

All your love is all that you require,

The grace that inundates the granite heartbreak.

How beautiful to take on such a burden,

Entering into contract with the void,

Responsible to some judgmental stranger,

'Ere meeting, for the seedtime of its soul!

Sing, then, of a quest that gains no guerdon,

Dearer far than pleasures now enjoyed,

A journey arduous and full of danger,

Yet sacred for the gift that is its goal.

© 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

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

4/2: Love Has Never Been About the Genes

4/3: Happiness Lies Just This Side of Heartache

Love Has Never Been About the Genes

April 2, 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 about the wolf who fostered Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome:

Love has never been about the genes,

But about beauty, and unforgiving grace.

The wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus

Had nothing in her heart but wrenching joy.

Oh, yes, of course, love also is a means,

Serving the survival of the race.

But more, it is a longing that redeems us,

An end itself no ending can destroy.

And so it is with mothers who love children

Not of their flesh, but of their nurturing.

The origin fades, the years of love remain

Vivid in the background of a life.

For Rome, the wolf will always be its kindred,

Ancestor who took fate's offering

And made it hers through sacrifice and pain,

The legacy that would her long days light.

© 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

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

4/2: Love Has Never Been About the Genes

Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

April 1, 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 goodbye poem to a foster child who has to move on to a new foster home:

Goodbye, my darling foster child,

On to another home!

Open doors remain behind.

Do but turn, and you will find

Bestride your heart, my own.

You may the wind, unwept and wild,

Embrace, but not alone.

© 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

4/1: Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child

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