Happiness, Even in a Desert

December 9, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme, with the approach of the holiday season, is Happy Holidays.

Today’s poem is about celebrating the holidays in a hot, dry desert.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness, even in a desert,

Adjusts well to what moisture it can find.

Perhaps it takes a little extra effort;

Perhaps one needs to keep it more in mind.

Yet one must still depend on celebration,

Holidays transferred from colder climes,

Offering the blessing of relation,

Love that takes the stage at special times.

In such reunions, happiness takes root

Deep enough to tap the deepest well,

Alive and blooming, bearing succulent fruit,

Yearning, yes, for some well-watered dell,

Still able to survive, as time will tell.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/happ42.html. For more poems for the holiday season, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html.

This week’s theme: Happy Holidays.

December 5: Have a Happy Holiday

December 6: Heaven Is a Hollow in the Heart

December 7: Happiness Is Not a Holiday

December 8: How Have the Years So Suddenly Gone By

December 9: Happiness, Even in a Desert