December 30, 2020
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week in honor of the new year is new beginnings.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
A congratulations-on-your-retirement poem to someone who was forced to retire:
Congratulations on
your retirement!
One makes a virtue of necessity.
Nor can one argue with reality,
Given its regard for sentiment.
Remember that one cannot judge one's fortune,
As what else might have been, one cannot know.
To choose what is remains the only option,
Unless one would be strangled by one's woe.
Let there be ironic celebration!
A moment of nostalgia and release,
The swift goodbye to long-sustained relation,
In which there is an element of peace.
Open doors await, to who knows where?
Now is ever, ever wholly there,
Singing with a grace that does not
cease.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/congr6.html. For more retirement poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/retirementpoems.html .
This week’s theme: New Beginnings
December 28: To Be Thirteen Is to Be, Well, a Teen
December 29: Revel in the Moment! It’s Well Earned
December 30: Congratulations on Your Retirement
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