Hard By Celebrations There Are Tears

December 10, 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 the sadness that often comes with celebration.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hard by celebrations there are tears,

A lonely longing for what cannot be.

Perhaps one lets it enter foolishly,

Passionate to weep for vanished years.

Yet living in the moment one is free,

Having jettisoned regrets and fears,

Open to the grace of eyes and ears,

Losing self in silent ecstasy.

In celebrating, one is marking time.

Deep beneath the ritual ballet

A tide removes the trite and the sublime,

Yearning, turning, churning through the day,

Sweeping all one cherishes away.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

December 8: How Have the Years So Suddenly Gone By

December 9: Happiness, Even in a Desert

December 10: Hard By Celebrations There AreTears