Hanukkah and Christmas Go Together

December 19, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since Christmas and Chanukah fall so near each other this year (Christmas Eve and the first night of Chanukah are both on December 24), this week’s theme is the spirit common to both holidays.

Today’s poem is about the seasonal pairing of Chanukah and Christmas.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hanukkah and Christmas go together,

A pair of holidays quite complementary,

Pleased to have become more elementary,

Pleased to have become birds of a feather.

Yet once, of course, they were antagonistic,

Having more to do with their religions,

On which they long depended for their visions,

Lest faith become increasingly heuristic.

In our time, the holidays are friends,

Delivered by the same inclusive heaven,

A pair of pastries all puffed up with leaven,

Yeasted well for mercenary ends,

Sweetened well to bind once-bitter blends.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/hanuk2.html. For more Christmas poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/xmaschristmaspoems.html. For more Hanukkah poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/chanukahpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Chanukah and Christmas

December 19: Hanukkah and Christmas Go Together