Forty-Four

Subscribe to this site on Substack

Subscribe to this site on YouTube

Subscribe to this site on Medium

Follow this site on Facebook

Follow this site on Instagram

Hear me read
the poem as
an MP3 file.

Watch me read
the poem as
a YouTube video.

Video Music: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra Op7 no1 mvt3. By George Friedrich Handel. Performed by the Advent Orchestra at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution - Share Alike license.

Alpha List

Number Poems

Philosophical
Poems

About This
Site

Poems for
Free

Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

Forty-four looks within and listens,
Open to the whispers of the soul,
Remembering retreats, now long ago,
That gave him intimations of the whole.
Years may pass; the longing never lessens.

For such encounters, there can be no goal.
One stops one's inner time within time's flow
Until, now free of purposes and passions,
Returned to bliss, one can resume one's role.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

Video Music: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra Op7 no1 mvt3. By George Friedrich Handel.
Performed by the Advent Orchestra at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution - Share Alike license.



[about this site] [poems for free] [poem of the week]
[site policy] [about me] [links]