Weekly Poems from Poems for Free: A Love Poem and More
Posted: Thursday, February 04, 2010
by Nicholas Gordon
http://www.poemsforfree.com
DESIRE IS
Desire is
The hook
Love
The eye
Which forgives
More
Than it
Is
Willing to
See
BE MY VALENTINE, FOR I
Be my Valentine, for I
Each day have thought of you.
My whole life couldn't manage what
Your ready smile can do,
Vanquishing my loneliness
As though all light were new.
Let me be your Valentine
Even as you're mine,
Needing what I have to give
That each might each define
In friendship and in harmony,
Now you, now I the melody,
Each helping each to shine.
I WRITE TO LET YOU KNOW I THINK ABOUT YOU
I write to let you know I think about you,
Lest you not decipher how I feel.
Our friendship gives me courage to reveal
Vain hopes I've long since harbored silent for you.
Even though right now we are just friends,
Your closeness to me makes me want much more,
Opening a barricaded door,
Unraveling the veil that hides my ends.
LOVE IS PATIENT WITH A LIFE
Love is patient with a life
That brings its share of pain.
We know sometime there is an end
To the most stubborn rain.
We know the sun comes out again
On a world that's fresh and new,
And all the gifts we freely give
Somewhere, sometime accrue.
We know sometimes we have to wait
For life to come around,
And sometimes that it won't, but still
There's some good to be found.
And even when things happen that
Your soul can hardly bear,
Know that I'll be next to you;
My love is always there.
FIFTEEN
Fifteen's neither child nor adult,
In between charade and innocence,
Fending off the forces that would shape
Too soon an unremarkable result.
Even if one were oneself to ape
Essences to which the heart assents,
No draft could be approved without revolt.
Desire is
The hook
Love
The eye
Which forgives
More
Than it
Is
Willing to
See
BE MY VALENTINE, FOR I
Be my Valentine, for I
Each day have thought of you.
My whole life couldn't manage what
Your ready smile can do,
Vanquishing my loneliness
As though all light were new.
Let me be your Valentine
Even as you're mine,
Needing what I have to give
That each might each define
In friendship and in harmony,
Now you, now I the melody,
Each helping each to shine.
I WRITE TO LET YOU KNOW I THINK ABOUT YOU
I write to let you know I think about you,
Lest you not decipher how I feel.
Our friendship gives me courage to reveal
Vain hopes I've long since harbored silent for you.
Even though right now we are just friends,
Your closeness to me makes me want much more,
Opening a barricaded door,
Unraveling the veil that hides my ends.
LOVE IS PATIENT WITH A LIFE
Love is patient with a life
That brings its share of pain.
We know sometime there is an end
To the most stubborn rain.
We know the sun comes out again
On a world that's fresh and new,
And all the gifts we freely give
Somewhere, sometime accrue.
We know sometimes we have to wait
For life to come around,
And sometimes that it won't, but still
There's some good to be found.
And even when things happen that
Your soul can hardly bear,
Know that I'll be next to you;
My love is always there.
FIFTEEN
Fifteen's neither child nor adult,
In between charade and innocence,
Fending off the forces that would shape
Too soon an unremarkable result.
Even if one were oneself to ape
Essences to which the heart assents,
No draft could be approved without revolt.
PROVERBS OF HAPPINESS
1. Happiness is another term for inner peace.
2. One achieves inner peace through harmony between what one does and what one believes.
3. Thus while outer events might make one happy or sad, happiness itself is entirely internal, and at all times completely within one's power.
4. This does not mean, however, that happiness is easy. It requires wisdom, discipline, and love.
5. Wisdom comes slowly, through the scrupulous pursuit of truth over time. Thus what one believes is never certain, but can always be sincere.
6. Discipline enables one to acquire habits in tune with one's beliefs. Behavior flows from character, which, like a mansion, is built of thousands of details, or acts, each judged not only for itself but for its contribution to the whole.
7. Love is the choice to open one's arms to life, enabling one to embrace imperfection. From it flow empathy, compassion, generosity, and acceptance. The opposite of love is fear.
8. To be happy, one must love oneself as well as others.
9. Because inner peace or harmony is never perfect, happiness is never achieved, and is always a question of more or less.
10. The inner and outer worlds are mirrors. How one shapes one's inner world through will shapes one's perception of the outer world. Thus an unhappy person is likely to perceive a world of lust, greed, and lies, whereas a happy one is likely to perceive a world of people struggling in the grip of love.
HAPPINESS COMES
FROM CHOOSING HAPPINESS
Happiness comes from choosing happiness,
As love's the consequence of choosing love.
Perhaps all angels shall the weaker prove,
Pinned by those whose fortunes they must bless.
Yet some must make their choice under duress,
Salvaging the unspent sweetness of
Each moment that across their sea might move,
Vivid in the wake of its caress.
Endurance is no name for an embrace,
Nor is one's joy much kindled by one's fury.
There is but death and illness in the offing;
Eventually, all life ends in pain.
Even so, love touches life with grace,
Not vested in the verdict of the jury,
Transforming what would else have little meaning,
Happily engaged again, again.
Happiness comes from choosing happiness,
As love's the consequence of choosing love.
Perhaps all angels shall the weaker prove,
Pinned by those whose fortunes they must bless.
Yet some must make their choice under duress,
Salvaging the unspent sweetness of
Each moment that across their sea might move,
Vivid in the wake of its caress.
Endurance is no name for an embrace,
Nor is one's joy much kindled by one's fury.
There is but death and illness in the offing;
Eventually, all life ends in pain.
Even so, love touches life with grace,
Not vested in the verdict of the jury,
Transforming what would else have little meaning,
Happily engaged again, again.
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