July 4th Is a Day for Barbeques

July 7, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Independence Day, in honor of Independence Day (USA), which falls on July 4.

Today’s poem is an Independence Day poem about how we celebrate the holiday.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

July 4th is a day for barbeques

Underneath an unforgiving sun;

Later, fireworks, perhaps the news,

Yawns, some love, and then the day is done.

For most it is a day for celebration

Of something so familiar that its grace,

Unnoticed as a routine revelation,

Remains interred in its accustomed place.

This neglect of what sustains one’s life

Has its twin in the love of man and wife.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/julyfo.html. For more poems for Independence Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/july4thpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Independence Day.

July 4: Just Remember: Freedom’s Not a Given

July 5: Your Light Still Lingers in Our Distant Morning

July 6: Just Words Declared Our Freedom Long Ago

July 7: July 4th Is a Day forBarbeques