Here Is Common Cause for Celebration

December 11, 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 celebrating the turn towards longer days and shorter nights.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here is common cause for celebration

As light lengthens, a harbinger of spring.

Perhaps the cold will be of long duration:

Patience, for you know what time will bring.

Yearning is the partner of sensation,

Heightening the glory of the thing.

Open, then, your heart to dark December;

Listen to the silent turn of time,

In which the light is scattered into embers,

Days on which the remnants barely shine,

As miserly and cold as you remember.

Yet here in darkness starts the upward climb,

Stepping towards the downward days of summer.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

December 11: Here Is Common Cause for Celebration