Make of Me Whatever You Desire
A Memorial Day poem to mourners from the one who is mourned and yet beyond caring. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Heart Strings. By Coyote Hearing. Music free to use at YouTube.
Memory's an Antidote for Death
A Memorial Day poem about how the anticipation of post-life memories affects how one lives one’s life. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Elegy. By Wayne Jones. Music free to use at YouTube.
Fifty Years Have Passed. Fifty Years!
A Memorial Day poem to a first husband killed in battle 50 years earlier. Fifty years have passed. Fifty years! More than half my eighty years ago! I weep with grief, with wonder, silent tears. Equally, the pain and beauty sear My heart -- I can't let
Make My Sorrow Pride
A Memorial Day poem in which a mourner begs for relief from pain: Make my sorrow pride. Enter me with light. Mourning turns to morning, Or so I would believe. Reach me with your tide. Inundate this blight. Awaken me with longing, Lest I live to grieve.