December 24, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is Christmas and Hanukkah. The first night of
Hanukkah was Dec. 22, and Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .
A name and Hanukkah poem about the beauty of all Creation,
in which everything is made of love and light:
Because all things are made of
light –
One’s flesh, one’s thoughts,
one’s self, one’s sight –
No candle need hold off the night,
Nor faith uncouple wrong from
right.
Ill and
good are equally bright.
Each being
is with love bedight.
Let all things be with love
bedight --
Instant oatmeal, Yoplait lite,
Lizards, snakes, sharks,
snowflakes, bright
Immensities beyond our sight,
The drawing that one gets just
right,
Hanukkah, a sleepless night.
Shall one love both day and
night?
Each moment is with love bedight
–
Times of wrong and times of
right,
Hours of darkness, hours of
light,
Ends unseen, an end in sight –
Love makes every moment bright.
In love with life, one’s tears
are bright,
Zeal and zest survive the night,
All things grace the gift of
sight –
Blessings with bad breath
bedight,
Emails, entrails, Facebook lite,
Those who think wrongs make a
right,
Hells, hawks, hymns, a holy rite.
Each stain, each star, each
stone, each bright
Limpet equally of light,
Loved equally both day and night,
Each miracle with love bedight,
Nothing without love in sight.
Given all the gifts in sight –
A Christian prayer, a Jewish
rite,
Bedbugs with one’s blood bedight,
Ecstasy, a brass blare bright,
Kisses in the sheltering night,
Eels, ants, aches, first morning
light –
No thing in sight not made of
light,
Nor is what’s right more
wrong by night.
All things
are bright, with love bedight.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/becau4.html.
For more Hanukkah poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/chanukahpoems.html .
This week’s theme: Christmas and Hanukkah
12/24: Because All Things Are Made of Light
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