Some Would Sing to Celebrate the Season

December 12, 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 for a singer/songwriter.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Some would sing to celebrate the season,

Elevating feeling into beauty.

A graceful melody requires no reason;

Still, one often finds one's muse in duty.

Of year-end holidays then sing, for they

Need music, art, and myth to weave their spell.

Sing, and add your pleasure to the day,

Grateful for the joy you render well!

Revel in the gift you have been given,

Even as you give what gifts you can,

Embracing the delight for which you've striven,

Tunesmith in a raucous caravan.

In love find what you need to play your part,

Not least, the secret sharer of your art,

Granting you, you do not know from where,

Songs to fill the cold, crisp winter air.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/somew6.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 theSeason