What does Santa bring for daddies (Christmas Poem)


What does Santa bring for daddies, Too old to want a toy? Wallets, watches, ties, and sweaters Don’t make for much joy. What do daddies want for Christmas, Really, in their hearts? So perfect that they’d shriek like kids Once the shredding starts? Oh, Daddy! Is there anything You want beneath the tree? Other than, […]

I want you to be here with me for Christmas (Christmas Love Poems)


I want you to be here with me for Christmas, Even if you leave your heart at home. I know that lately my love makes you restless, But it’s too hard to spend this time alone. My love for you is like the Christmas season: Joyful, yet with knowledge of the end. My need for […]

I look across (Thanksgiving poems)


I Look Across I look across The palm of God’s great hand And see the peace That underlies my pain. No tragic loss Or grief can be so grand. Through life’s short lease Such sights our hearts sustain. Nicholas Gordon Send by email

Bright Star by John Keats


Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and […]

“A Dream, after reading Dante’s Episode of Paola and Francesca” by John Keats


As Hermes once took to his feathers light, When lulled Argus, baffled, swoone’d and slept, So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright So play’d, so charm’d, so conquer’d, so bereft The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes; And, seeing it asleep, so fled away – Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies, Nor […]

What is “Being in Love”?


Being in love… Falling in love… Declaring love… What do all these words mean? Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. –Helen Rowland You’ll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion […]

A poem to a daughter


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