Holidays Do Not Bring Happiness

October 28, 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 Happy Holidays poem about happiness as a decision.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Holidays do not bring happiness.

A day does not determine one's condition.

Pleasure? Even joy? Severe distress?

Perhaps. But happiness is a decision.

Yet happy people relish celebration,

Having much to celebrate, as all

On holidays ought revel in relation,

Loving well the world of love writ small.

Into life one pours one's inner beauty,

Doing, willing, being what one would,

As much in play and pleasure as in duty,

Yielding self as one pursues the good,

So living as though one believed one could.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/holid9.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Happiness

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October 24: You Had the Gift of Happiness

October 25: Happiness Is Much like Brushing Teeth

October 26: Forty-Five5

October 27: Proverbs on Happiness

October 28: Holidays Do Not Bring Happiness