Happiness Is Not a Holiday

December 7, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme, with the approach of the holiday season, is Happy Holidays.

Today’s poem is about how holidays hold families together.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness is not a holiday.

An everyday will do, an any minute.

Perhaps one lingers briefly by the way,

Pausing to breathe in the infinite.

Yet holidays are necessary pleasures,

Holding open else-neglected doors,

Offering a wealth of well-known treasures

Likely to renew depleted stores.

In doing what the holiday demands,

Delighting in its long-obeyed commands,

A separated family now joins hands,

Yielding to a deeper harmony,

Still together, though infrequently.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/happ75.html. For more poems for the holiday season, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html.

This week’s theme: Happy Holidays.

December 5: Have a Happy Holiday

December 6: Heaven Is a Hollow in the Heart

December 7: Happiness Is Not a Holiday