Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

January 4, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem about the need for innocence at least once a year:

Harbingers of happiness, awake!

And dreams abandoned, return from restless sleep!

Past hopes, whom bitter wanderers forsake,

Promise once again what will might reap!

Years turn and turn, at each new turn reborn,

New imagined by redeemers new,

Each in turn vouchsafed a festive dawn,

Wind driven towards a sky of darker hue.

Yearning is of innocence a cause,

Embracing with delight what ought to be,

As once a year even truth takes pause,

Reflecting on what other eyes might see.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

1/4: Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

Happy New Year, Darling

January 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem love poem:

Happy New Year, darling!

Another year gone by!

Peeling off the onion,

Pausing just to cry.

Yet what could be more lovely?

Nestled into need,

Embracing while dancing

Wherever life may lead.

Yearning is a blessing

Even though we have

All we've ever yearned for,

Rendered us by love.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

January 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem about the morality of wishing those in misery well:

Happy New Year! To those who will have none,

A wish that knows too well it cannot be.

Perhaps one ought not wish so futilely;

Perhaps one ought, that such not be alone.

Yearning is the price one pays for hope,

Nor can one hope unless one would endure.

Each futile wish makes paradise more sure,

Widening the world's supernal scope.

Yet there are those who find such wishes cheap,

Easy substitutes for sacrifice.

A wish for good is more than merely nice,

Restoring winds that stir the unguent deep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

Happiness Is Wholly in One's Power

January 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem using a musical metaphor to describe the relationship between fate and will :

Happiness is wholly in one's power

As one provides the chords to fit the tune,

Pleased to play sweet music by the hour,

Pleased to harmonize one's passing gloom.

Yet there are days demanding dissonance,

Needing harsh accompaniment to pain.

Embrace them, then, and give them resonance,

With brass enough to brighten a refrain.

Years are symphonies of varied mood,

Each sketched out by fate, filled in by you.

As the woodwinds dance, the basses brood,

Resolved in beauty - crafted, yes, but true.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

Here We Are Again, Another Year

December 31, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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

A Happy New Year poem about making resolutions year after year:

Here we are again, another year!

Another chance to change, to do things better.

Praised be those who still believe and care!

Praised be hope, that would the will unfetter.

Yes, we know we’ve been through this before,

New Year after New Year. Yet we still

Endure in our desire for something more,

Wind-borne across bare treetops, bleak and chill.

Yes, we know our resolutions are

Easy to make and break, and still we make them;

And still pursue our dreams beyond the bar,

Resolved as ever, never to forsake them.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

I'm Your Christmas Tree, All Brightly Lit

December 30, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Christmas, which is celebrated on December 25^th.

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

A Christmas poem to a child from his or her Christmas tree explaining its symbolic meaning:

I'm your Christmas tree, all brightly lit,

Hung with angels, colored balls, and elves.

Underneath my boughs your presents sit,

If you've behaved yourselves.

Why must we wait till early Christmas morn

To open up our brand-new games and toys?

Why gifts for us the day that Christ was born

If we're good girls and boys?

Now listen to your Christmas tree: I'm wise

In all the ways of faith that you must know.

I'm here because of what I symbolize:

Green through ice and snow.

There is a world beyond what we can see

Where, by grace of God, we can receive

God's greatest gift: to live eternally,

If only we believe.

Eternal life is what God gave to you

By sending down His son to live on Earth.

This was His gift, so Santa brings gifts, too,

To celebrate Christ's birth.

The baby Jesus got gifts on this day

Because, like any child, He loved to play.

And so God wants to share this special joy

With every girl and boy.

Believe God loves you as your parents do,

And takes great joy in giving gifts to you.

Live well and love, and evergreen like me,

You'll live eternally.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Christmas

12/24: If All Were Now as It Was When

12/25: Angel Horses Flap Their Wings

12/26: Can Anyone Explain the Glow of Christmas

12/27: Can the Wind Across the Snow

12/28: Cheer Is Not What You’d Expect from Christmas

12/29: Cold Comfort in the Chastity of Sorrow

12/30: I’m Your Christmas Tree, All Brightly Lit

Cold Comfort in the Chastity of Sorrow

December 29, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Christmas, which is celebrated on December 25^th.

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

A Christmas poem about the need for faith if one is to find true comfort in life:

Cold comfort in the chastity of sorrow,

Having turned in pain towards innocence,

Reaching through the madness for the marrow,

Intent, for once, on yielding all pretence;

Sensing the necessity of love

Though feeling none but hunger well within,

Meaning nothing more than one might prove

As one finds little proof in death and sin:

So it was one night in Bethlehem.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Christmas

12/24: If All Were Now as It Was When

12/25: Angel Horses Flap Their Wings

12/26: Can Anyone Explain the Glow of Christmas

12/27: Can the Wind Across the Snow

12/28: Cheer Is Not What You’d Expect from Christmas

12/29: Cold Comfort in the Chastity of Sorrow