October 25, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is happiness.
Today’s poem is a twenty-sixth anniversary poem about the
need to celebrate and renew happiness.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Happiness is much like brushing teeth:
A semiconscious choice become routine,
Performed through practices sustained, though
brief,
Perhaps without much thought for what they mean.
Years of I love you’s, kisses, sweet good nights,
Touching, pleasuring, talking, giving, sharing,
Whimsical rituals, familial rites,
Establish a routine for mutual caring.
Nor could such happiness survive for long
The sheer redundancy of daily life,
Yearning for change that sometimes comes on
strong,
Self-centered grievances that lead to strife,
If one did not each day renew one’s love,
X-ing out the fear that in one moves,
Taking time at times to celebrate
Happiness, and choose again one’s fate.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ77.html.
For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Happiness
October 23: Thirty-Three5
October 24: You Had the Gift of Happiness
October 25: Happiness Is Much like Brushing Teeth
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