Hints of Happiness Are All Around You

December 4, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is holidays, in honor of the holiday season.

Today’s poem is a Happy Holidays poem about appreciating the beauty that lies beneath the sentimentality.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hints of happiness are all around you,

Alive within the sentiment for sale.

Perhaps because the holidays surround you,

Placed ubiquitously, their passions pale.

Yet truth is often smothered in cliché,

However lean and healthy simply broiled.

One can love the rituals of the day,

Lingering over what cannot be spoiled.

In Hanukkah, in Christmas, and in New Year's,

Delight is ancient, having long survived,

Antidote for what had been true fears,

Yearnings for a sun each year revived,

Shining wanly on a land that died.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/hints2.html. For more Happy Holidays poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Holidays

December 4: Hints of Happiness Are All Around You