Greetings
Brith
Why is it that a child makes life worthwhile?
Why is hope with each new birth new born?
What deep remembrance, shadowed in a smile,
Brings back the dream whose measured loss we mourn?
Why do we think that life that is to be
Has greater aptitude for being more,
As if we rose not from the self-same sea
To crash in turn against the self-same shore?
Why do we wrap the best of us in song,
The Eden that we left but never lost,
And try to pass that purer self along,
Not counting risk or reckoning the cost?
I do not know, but know that from my womb
Has come a life whose life makes my life bloom.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Gratitude
To the graduate who makes me smile
Or melt away whenever he comes near,
The handsome one, with lovely eyes and hair,
Hearts leaning toward his sunlight all the while:
Even I, who am your friend, lean toward you,
Gripped with pride in all that you have done,
Relishing the compliments you have won,
Alight with all the ways I might reward you.
Draw your own sweet dreams. I wish you well
Upon your graduation and beyond.
And if I could, I do wave my magic wand
That happiness for you I might compel,
Even as I think what time might tell.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Gratitude, like love, is part of being,
Remaining when all else is left behind,
Absurd and yet quite natural, a yearning
To give to light the worship of the wind.
In gratitude we find a gift worth giving
To something that no gift can serve at all,
Unburdening ourselves of unspent feeling
Dammed behind a thick and willful wall,
Else cut off by reason from our awe.
From:
Friends
Friends
Sharing thoughts...
Wiping tears...
Being there for one-another
through the years.
Giving advice, to make things right.
Showing you care by holding me tight.
When the road gets rough.
And the people keep on going.
You always seem to be there,
and our friendship keep on growing.
From: Samantha Brown Green
When I made a wish
If you see a falling star
make a wish for it may come true,
because the last time I did
I found a friend
like you.
From: Paris
Thinking of you with a smile, I like having you as a friend.
From: Alex , London
A friend is someone we turn to
when our spirits need a lift,
A friend is someone we treasure
for our friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone who fills our lives
with beauty, joy, and grace
And makes the whole world we live in
a better and happier place.
From:
Standing by,All the way.
Here to help you through your day.
Holding you up,When you are weak,
Helping you find what it is you seek.
Catching your tears,When you cry.
Pulling you through when the tide is high.
Absorbing your voice when you talk.
Standing by when you learn to walk.
Just being there,through thick and thin,
All just to say, you are my friend.
From:
Friendship is like the breeze,
You can not hold it,
Smell it,
Taste it,
Or know when it iss coming,
But you can always feel it,
And you will always know it is there,
It may come and then go,
But you can know it will always be back.
From:
Friends will come and friends will go,
The seasons change and it will show,
I will age and so will you,
But our friendship stays, strong and true.
From:
Smiles!
Smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu.
when someone smiled at me today,
I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner,
and someone saw my grin.
when he smiled I realized.
I do passed it on to him!
I thought about that smile,
then I realized it is worth.
a single smile just like mine,
could travel round the Earth!
From:
Happy birthday, darling!
Even though you are not with me.
Right now you are with someone else
Temporarily.
I know I am the wild cat
Who will get you in the end,
Not only your hot lover, but
Your best and truest friend.
So have a happy birthday
And remember my sweet kiss.
It is waiting for you when you turn
To me, your fated bliss.
From:
Anniversary
Hurrah that you have lasted this long!!!
From: Niki, Leeds
Fifty years together is a mountain
In truth not all of us would wish to climb.
For umpteen thousand days . . . but, well, who is countin?
The two of you have trudged up this incline.
Yet what you see up there must be sublime.
Your love has shaped your lives much as the weather
Erodes the Earth into majestic forms.
A half a century of life together
Reveals the rock beneath the mountain heather,
Splendidly unmoved by passing storms.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Happy Anniversary!
After many years
Pleasure is a golden hillside,
Passionate and still.
Your bedrooms and your hands are free,
After unshed tears;
Now much of life is tucked away,
No longer touched by will.
In your hearts a wilderness,
Vast and undisturbed,
Empty of all sentiments
Renews the moments glory.
So may years of tenderness,
Also sung unheard,
Radiant beyond all sense
Yet tell love is ancient story.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Twenty-five years, and still you are in love!
What river does not deepen as it flows?
Each day your love increases as it goes,
Nourishing the lands through which it moves.
The love that lasts is deeper far than passion.
Years pass and it abides beneath the light.
Few know the secrets of its dark delight,
Intent on all the toys that are in fashion.
Vivid lusts yield pleasures that soon cease.
Each year of love yields happiness and peace
From: Nicholas Gordon
Children
A child is the greatest gift
That our lives can bestow.
It brings the most exquisite joy
That we will ever know.
Some days deliver happiness,
Far more than we can touch.
We need the help of all our friends
To comprehend how much.
And so we thank you for the gifts,
Both those you brought and are,
That celebrate this rich, full life
And its rising star!
From:
Bar Mitzvah
Before one reads the Torah, one must be
Alight with love of G-d, as though a flame
Resplendent found its refuge in a heart
Made pure by discipline and holy deeds.
If one read only thus, then one would see
The meaning of the meaning, as the art
Zealously sustains those souls who read
Vested in the glory of The Name.
All of life and death is here in this:
How much one grasps depends on who one is.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Birthday
Happy birthday, Mother,
Even though you might prefer
Life without these markers,
Each too public to defer.
Now that you are fifty,
Sing to us your own sweet song,
That we might celebrate your life,
Rejoicing all night long.
Each of us has love to bring,
Each a special song to sing,
To lose your heart among.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Happy Birthday, means much more
Than have a happy day.
Within these words lie lots of things
I never get to say.
It means I love you first of all,
Then thanks for all you do.
It means you mean a lot to me,
And that I am proud of you.
But most of all, I guess it means
That I am thinking of
Your happiness on this, your day,
With pleasure and with love.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Happy birthday to my love!
A sea around my heart:
Part shelter, part enduring word,
Part mirror of my art.
You are the calm that drains my rage,
Bliss upon my shores,
Immensity immutable,
Rush that life restores.
To you I wish to be a welcome
Harbor for your ocean,
Destiny and origin,
Aim of your affection,
Yearning of your motion.
From: Nicholas Gordon
To my dad on his day,
Of whom I am a living will:
May your happiness fulfill
Your goodness, as is just and right.
Deeds are seeds upon the night
As wind and wonder have their way,
Delivering the destined light.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Get well soon
Given the fragility of life,
Each of us remains a miracle,
Though new emerged from some bright sea of pain.
When every second feels just like a knife
Entering the soft flesh of the will,
Life whispers soon we will be well again.
Linger, then, along the edge of shade;
Soon enough you will be in the sun,
Open-armed, erect, and unafraid.
Old wounds remind us of fierce battles won,
Nor will our patient faith not be repaid.
From: Nicholas Gordon
Being sick has a mental part,
So use your head to cure you.
Thinking good thoughts is the way to start,
And smiling works, I assure you.
Keep up your spirits to cheer yourself;
Do not let the gloomies win.
A happy soul will get well fast,
And right now is the time to begin.
From: Karl Fuchs
I am sending this to let you know
I think of you each day,
And pray for your recovery,
Hoping soon you will be okay.
You are going through a lot right now;
You are treatments can be trying;
Remember while you do them
It is your problem you are defying.
Hold on to your positive attitude,
And when things get hard to bear,
Know that I am here for you;
Remember that I care.
And when you are well and flourishing,
Look back and realize,
You learned what you were made of;
That is a reward that satisfies!
I believe in you; You can do it!
From: Joanna Fuchs
