Your Birthday Was the Day We First Were Us

July 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A poem for an anniversary that coincides with a birthday:

Your birthday was the day we first were us,

And so for me it is a day twice blessed.

I celebrate my having you twice over:

First, that you exist, then that you're mine.

I never felt a love so free and fine,

So much a part of me, I’m but a lover,

So rich and full, it crowds out all the rest,

All time before I turned from me to us.

I am so joyful to be part of us,

To be at home with you and not a guest,

To celebrate this day and not another,

To share with you a common boundary line.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There BeAngels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

July 24: Your Birthday Was Day We First Were Us

Two Years We've Been Together

July 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A second anniversary poem about how to deal with marital ups and downs:

Two years we've been together, and

We're very much in love.

Of course we've had our minor wars,

Yet none would heartfelt prove.

Each time we think: What if else?

A wind goes through our souls,

Rippling through our tangled sheets,

Sweeping out our woes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 23: Two Years We’ve Been Together

You've Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

July 22, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A second anniversary poem about what a wife loves most about her husband:

You've been with me two sweet and awesome years:

The best years of my life; that is, so far.

You are my passion and my guiding star,

Whose steady radiance calms my foolish fears.

How easily you wipe away my tears!

How bright you make my days! How good you are!

I love the way you leave yourself ajar,

Letting in my anger till it clears.

I love the way you play with little kids,

A father in the rough, yet soft and kind.

I love the way you laugh with warmth and ease.

I love the way you close your eyes, the lids

Shutting out the worlds you'd leave behind,

Your head upon the pillow of my knees.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 22: You’ve Been with Me Two Sweet and Awesome Years

To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

July 21, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

An anniversary poem in praise of the grace and wisdom of a wife:

To Ellen, lady of such grace

As well might grace a husband's life;

Whose gentle Quattrocento face

Conveys the wisdom of the wife.

As well might grace a husband's life,

She has a way with words, whose wit

Conveys the wisdom of the wife

Obliquely, bit by subtle bit.

She has a way with words, whose wit

Works patiently, as each dawn comes

Obliquely, bit by subtle bit,

Till even fools can see the sun.

Works patiently, as each dawn comes

To bring the blind Earth’s gloom to light,

Till even fools can see the sun

Restore the truths long lost to night.

To bring the blind Earth’s gloom to light,

Whose gentle Quattrocento face

Restores the truths long lost to night?

To Ellen: lady of such grace!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 21: To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace

For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

July 20, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A fourth anniversary poem about angels coming to help celebrate the occasion:

For you, let there be angels lost in song,

Oceanic choirs in your sky,

Unified in joy, an ethereal throng

Rejoicing in your earthly love on high!

Yes, angels flock to those on Earth who love,

Each drawn to love like butterflies to bloom,

A fluttering host of pure delight, who prove

Romantically inclined, though we assume

Still baffled by some things they know not of.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries

July 20: For You, Let There Be Angels Lost in Song

There Is Within My Happenstance

July 19, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Bastille Day, or the national holiday of France, which is celebrated on July 14^th.

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

A humorous political poem about the guilty innocence of liberals:

There is within my happenstance

An unshed innocence,

Not rare among those buttercups

Whose sun is fueled by shame.

No matter what the circumstance,

My heart must hie me hence,

For all the quince of Nottingham

Is squandered in my name.

Extant there are no photographs

Of who or what I am,

For they were in the sandwiches

We ate one moonlit night.

Instead my mirror must reveal

The marmaladed ham

That lies atop the tabletop

And stuffs itself with light.

Ay me! What might I do that might

Undo my unfelt pain?

My life must gorge on life, and yet

I sorrow for my mice.

Ay me! The cherubs hunger as

My goods are shipped by plane.

And I must dance with polar bears

Across the shrinking ice.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

July 13: Darfur/Darfur

July 14: Obama/Osama

July 15: The Last Depression Led to Holocaust

July 16: Shake Up the World! It Could Use Some Shaking

July 17: Richard Is a Restless Dreamer

July 18: The Triumph of the Victor

July 19: There Is Within My Happenstance

The Triumph of the Victor

July 18, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Bastille Day, or the national holiday of France, which is celebrated on July 14^th.

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

A political poem about the irony that the moment of victory often contains the seeds of the victor’s eventual defeat:

The triumph of the victor means

The losses have begun.

To be well-nigh invincible

Is to be on the run.

Power is a current that

Goes swiftly out to sea.

One's will is wind on grass; one's only

Hope is to be free.

Safety lies in wisdom more than

Strength since strength must die,

While wisdom rides the waves beneath which

Sunken victors lie.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

July 13: Darfur/Darfur

July 14: Obama/Osama

July 15: The Last Depression Led to Holocaust

July 16: Shake Up the World! It Could Use Some Shaking

July 17: Richard Is a Restless Dreamer

July 18: The Triumph of the Victor