Holidays Are Happy Days

December 8, 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 holiday poem for a child explaining why the holidays come at this time of year.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Holidays are happy days,

Full of gifts and sweets!

There are lots of games to play,

And lots of toys and treats!

But why does all this happen

At just this time of year

When it is so cold and dark,

With little cause for cheer?

The day that is the shortest,

With the longest night,

Is when the heavens start to give

Each day a bit more light.

And so we mark the turn towards light

With holidays that say

That light’s a miracle, and joy

Can light the darkest day.

And so it is in life: The darkest

Hours will be when

The light will turn, and with it hope

Will be reborn again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/holi11.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