Weekly Poems: A New Years Poem and More
Posted: Thursday, December 31, 2009
by Nicholas Gordon
http://www.poemsforfree.com
HERE'S TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
Here's to health and happiness!
A toast to the New Year!
Peace and joy to all of us!
Prosperity and cheer!
Years come and go, some bad, some good.
New years provide the space,
Each to fill with what one would,
Windows onto grace.
Years come and go, yet still we toast
Each one, for each one seems
As though it were a new-found coast,
Rich with hope and dreams.
Carrie is my Valentine,
A fantasy come true,
Reminding me that fortune can
Reenter what we do.
I said what words were in my heart,
Each far more than I knew.
WHEN YOU SAID "I LOVE YOU"
When you said, "I love you,"
I went over the moon.
My heart sang its glory,
The stars sang in tune.
As when with a word
God brought forth light,
So with these words
You ended my night.
So with these words
You made something new:
A bond of devotion
Between me and you.
How powerful words
To shape who we are!
We ponder in silence;
Our words cross a bar.
Your words crossed a threshold
And entered the past,
Yet they have created
A world that will last.
WINTER
Winter howls like winds or wolves or weeping,
Inviting us to witness pain and death.
No truth can better penetrate the shell
That insulates our empathy so well,
Essence of the entropy of breath
Returning us to one another's keeping.
BEING A KID IS TOUGH
Being a kid is tough, 'cause they
Can tell you what to do.
Nothing is completely yours.
Your jail is your home.
People love you--that's OK--
And do nice things for you.
But what you want are open doors
To fields where you can roam.
KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING
--What one knows is always less than what one doesn't know.
--Therefore, one must place more importance on what one doesn't know than upon what one knows.
--But how can one place importance on what one doesn't know?
--First, and most tellingly, by being humble about what one knows.
--Second, by being skeptical about what anyone else claims to know.
--Third, by investing large amounts of one's time, energy, and resources into knowing more.
HERE WE HAVE ANOTHER NEW BEGINNING
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.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Thanks again for sharing your reflections, joys and heart! Marijo
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