Poems

MEANING has no meaning
without love,
Elevating sentience
to desire.
Reason has no reason to
approve
Revelation unsustained
by fire.
Yearn, then, with the
recklessness of burning,

Coming hungry to the
Christmas table,
Holding tight the objects
of your yearning,
Ready to find kings within
the stable.
In you there is a love that
brings to being
Such beauty as you cannot
hope to see,
Too simple and too glorious
for seeing,
Making it a sacrament
to be.
As love gives wings their will
and words their song,
So may it give to you days
sweet and long.

-- By NICHOLAS GORDON,
as posted on the Internet.
Nicholas Gordon is an
English professor at
New Jersey City University.

Candles Are A
Gift of Light

CANDLES are a gift of light,
A tiny sun, a bit of star.
No other dancer in the night
Dances with such sheer delight,
Little souls serene and bright,
Each a glimpse of what we are
Shining innocent and pure.

-- By NICHOLAS GORDON,
as posted on the Internet.