Gratitude, like Love, Is Part of Being

November 22, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is gratitude, in honor of Thanksgiving, which falls on November 24.

Today’s poem is about gratitude to God for the gift of being.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Gratitude, like love, is part of being,

Remaining when all else is left behind,

Absurd and yet quite natural, a yearning

To give to light the worship of the wind.

In gratitude we find a gift worth giving

To something that no gift can serve at all,

Understanding that the gift of living

Depends upon some will beyond the wall,

Eliciting our gratitude and awe.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/gratit.html . For more poems about gratitude, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/thanksgivingpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Gratitude.

November 21: Thank You for the Gift of Understanding

November 22: Gratitude, like Love, Is Part of Being