Shine like a Moon upon Your Field of Snow

December 16, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Season’s Greetings.

Today’s poem is a Season’s Greetings poem about the need for seasons to enrich one’s sense of life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Shine like a moon upon your field of snow!

Each buried root awaits the touch of spring

As you to your own celebrations bring

Such glory as reflects from down below.

Of mirrors let us sing, and holy light

Not ours, that yet we spread across the darkness,

'Twixt eternity and nothingness

Shining to illuminate the night.

Gardens wait, and naked stands of trees;

Rivers wait, and lakes, and frozen streams.

Eden waits to try again its dreams,

Enduring underneath our cruelties.

The world reflects your moonlight, white and still.

In what you see is what you are, though time

Needs cycles of the wind and of the will,

Granting to each sentiment its clime

So you may each sense of life fulfill.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Season’s Greetings.

December 12: Some Would Sing to Celebrate the Season

December 13: So Ancient a Festival Ought Touch the Heart

December 14: Sing of the Rhythms of Life

December 15: Silent Night. The Whole World Holds Its Breath

December 16: Shine like a Moon upon Your Fieldof Snow