Happiness Is Often Background Music

December 9, 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 holidays as the festive markers of time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness is often background music,

A song one hears but rarely listens to,

Perhaps because the lyrics aren’t new,

Perhaps because one does not often choose it.

Years are gifts to cherish day by day.

However, one remembers year by year --

On birthdays, holidays, days of ritual cheer,

Life’s festive markers placed along one’s way.

In unmarked days is where one’s happiness happens,

Days of work, of longing, of routine,

A quiet happiness, a gentle green,

Yielding, yes, at times to cares and passions,

Still savoring the moment and the dream.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ79.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