So May This Season of Sweet Celebration

December 20, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Season’s Greetings.

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A Season’s Greetings poem about passing holiday traditions on to the next generation:

So may this season of sweet celebration
Endure for yet another generation,
Alive in food and ritual and song,
Sustained by the desire to pass it on.
Of love and will and long tradition sing,
Needing new knots to extend the string.
Sing the cover songs that touch the heart,
Giving them new salience through your art.
Revel in the riches of the season,
Embracing truths more resonant than reason,
Each a myth of hope revealed anew
That touches something beautiful in you.
If you resolve not to let it die,
Nor be reduced to something one might buy,
Giving it the imprint of your grace,
So will the next brigade this time embrace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/somayt.html. For more Season’s Greetings poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html.

This week’s theme: Season’s Greetings
December 14: Sing of Love, That Graces Every Season
December 15: Say There’s Neither Santa Claus nor God
December 16: Safe Within the Womb of Expectation
December 17: Share a Bit of Sunshine on Dark Days
December 18: Some Refuse the Pleasures of the Season
December 19: Sing of Love and Happiness and Joy
December 20: So May This Season of Sweet Celebration