Holidays Have Changed over the Eons

December 7, 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 the differences between ancient and modern holiday celebrations.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Holidays have changed over the eons

As we evolved from hunters into peons,

Pausing by the graves of mysteries

Preserved for family feasts and shopping sprees,

Yearning for what life was meant to be,

Having lived so long unnaturally.

Once upon a time a holiday

Looked a lot more like a holy day,

In which through ritual joy and chanted prayer,

Dancing, dancing, passionately there,

A person might the restless self erase,

Yielding to a ravenous embrace,

Singing, dancing with unearthly grace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/holi10.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

December 5: How About Those Holidays

December 6: Somewhere There’s a Magic Door

December 7: Holidays Have Changed over the Eons