Teolan

Subscribe to my this site on Substack
to have me send you a free poem each week.

Subscribe to this site on YouTube

Follow this site on Facebook

Follow this site on Instagram

Hear me read
the poem as
an MP3 file.

Hear me read
the poem as
an MP4 file.

Audio and Video Music:
Gymnopedie No 1.
By Erik Satie.
Sequenced by Kevin MacLeod.
Music free to use
at YouTube.

Alpha List

Name Poems

About This
Site

Poems for
Free

Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

Teolan takes the time to take her time,
Eager not to rush too eagerly
Over to an object of desire,
Lest her willful wind put out the fire.
A hasty meal will please but meagerly,
Nor ought one for the food forsake the wine.

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

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