Every Moment Sings of Love and Beauty.

September 13, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is giving, in honor of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, which falls on September 13 and commemorates Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son.

Today’s poem is a poem for Eid al-Adha about the beauty of giving.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Every moment sings of love and beauty.

If such gifts are yours, what must you give?

Dance, dance through the gardens of your duty,

And be a blessing by the way you live.

Let go your self , and all your schemes and pleasures,

And leave them with your shoes outside the door.

Do the things that bring life’s greatest treasures

Here, with your forehead on the floor,

And know for certain whom this gift is for.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/every7.html. For more poems for Eid al-Adha, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/muslimpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Giving.

September 12: Thirty-Five

September 13: Every Moment Sings of Love andBeauty