Thirty-Three

October 29, 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 number poem on the secret of happiness.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thirty-three: the age Christ died on the cross.

Has one need for birthdays more than this?

In such short span one may our souls revise,

Remake our worlds and liberate our eyes,

Terrify us with the threat of bliss--

Yet years roll on with neither gain nor loss.

The secret of happiness is always love,

However long one lives. Birthdays wheel

Round and round this truth like raucous cries,

Eased into a vast silence, unreal,

Eased into a calm winds cannot move.

© 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

October 23: Thirty-Three5

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

October 29: Thirty-Three