Happiness Comes in Many Shapes and Sizes

June 15, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is fatherhood, in honor of Father’s Day, which falls on June 19.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for someone who is childless.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness comes in many shapes and sizes.

Anyone can find a proper fit.

Praised be those who take life bit by bit,

Poised to polish setbacks and surprises.

Yet life is always more than one surmises.

Fortune favors those who favor it,

And whether caused by choice, chance, whim, or writ,

Turns out to be a text that one revises.

How might you, childless, celebrate this day,

Enjoying what will never be your own,

Reminded of a loss you might regret

‘Mid families out to pay their homage due?

So may you cherish children on your way,

Delighting in the ones you have on loan,

And do with love and art the things that let

You father what is beautiful and true.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/happ73.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Fatherhood.

June 13: Children Need a Daddy

June 14: I Have You in My Bones

June 15: Happiness Comes in Many Shapes andSizes