Happiness Is Something That One Settles for:

January 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is epiphany, both for the holiday that falls on January 6^th and in the sense of any sudden insight or perception of meaning. But since New Year’s Day falls on a Monday this year, we’ll have one more New Year’s poem for today and then begin the theme of epiphany tomorrow.

Today’s poem is a New Year’s poem about happiness and time.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness is something that one settles for

After the ups and downs of ecstasy.

Perhaps one doesn't know what one is looking for;

Perhaps one doesn't realize one is free.

Year's end is time to tally up the tentacles,

Needing an occasion to take stock.

Everywhere are angels singing canticles

Well beyond the confines of the clock.

Years, no more than seconds, are but moments,

Each eternity again, again.

All live on the wheel of joys and torments,

Returning to the ramparts of the wind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/happ23.html. For more poems for the New Year, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/newyearsdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: New Year’s/Epiphany

January 1: Happiness Is Something that One Settles for