Happiness Breaches, Bursting from the Deep

December 10, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is holidays, in honor of the holiday season.

Today’s poem is a Happy Holidays poem about the comings and goings of happiness.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness breaches, bursting from the deep,

And then sounds, submerged for humdrum days,

Playing with the heart as music plays,

Passionate, peaceful, poised to laugh or weep.

Years of happiness are tidal, turning,

Having silent commerce with the moon,

Overwhelming sand and flowering dune,

Leaving with an outbound rush of yearning.

Implanted in the frozen soil of winter,

Days of celebration blossom still,

A sign of life’s resilience as the will

Yields nothing to the season, dark and bitter,

Singing of happiness through good and ill.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ80.html. For more Happy Holidays poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Holidays

December 4: Hints of Happiness Are All Around You

December 5: How About Those Holidays

December 6: Somewhere There’s a Magic Door

December 7: Holidays Have Changed over the Eons

December 8: Holidays Are Happy Days

December 9: Happiness Is Often Background Music

December 10: Happiness Breaches, Bursting from the Deep