December 23, 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 a Hanukkah poem about keeping the flame of
love alive.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
So who said it was easy to keep old flames burning?
Even experts could use a little divine help now and then.
The easy part is to go out and be brilliant as Shakespeare.
Harder--much harder--to be the light dancing in someone
else's eyes.
Lights such as love require more faith than fuel.
Of all leaps, the most dangerous is into the mind of your
lover.
Regarding miracles: What is less explicable than
Remaining in love through the long icy anguish of anger?
All lovers long for freedom only slightly less than they
fear it.
In the end, love burns not desire but fear.
Not one of us would be capable of keeping the fire burning
Except for the knowledge that it is the sweetest, best, and
most
beautiful thing in our lives.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/sowho.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
December 20: Can Anyone Love Christmas Who’s Not Christian
December 21: Three Holidays! Hooray! Hooray!
December 22: Santa Lights the Hanukkah Lights
December 23: So Who Said It Was Easy
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