Let Your Birth Sign Lie upon Your Chest

January 24, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Nationality and Race/Lunar New Year in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, which this year is celebrated on January 20^th, and the Lunar, or Chinese New Year, which this year is celebrated on January 25^th.

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

A Lunar New Year poem about the relationship between reason and religion:

Let your birth sign lie upon your chest,

Unity of character and fate

Now played out in fantasy and flesh,

A tableau to which readers may relate,

Reason and religion on a date.

Nor does this mean your reason has regressed,

Even if seduced by such a guest.

What faith might say is often reason dressed,

Yielding metaphors that illustrate

Exactly what no logic could suggest,

A time-encrusted truth by beauty blessed,

Retaining wisdom in its gnomic state.

© by Nicholas Gordon

If you enjoyed this poem, please like, comment on, or share it so that it might be seen and enjoyed by others. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/letyo2.html. For more Lunar New Year poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/chinesenewyearpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday/Lunar New Year

1/20: Maybe Dreams Cannot Come True, but They

1/21: Might Not Racism Cut Both Ways

1/22: Maybe This Was Harder than I Thought

1/23: Love Is Far More Various than Race

1/24: Let Your Birth Sign Lie upon Your Chest