Here We Go Again -- a Holiday

December 7, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week as we enter the holiday season is Happy Holidays.

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

A Happy Holidays poem about the necessary and sometimes stressful joy of celebrating the holidays with family:

Here we go again – a holiday

As happy as the last, which is to say

Pleasant in the memory and making,

Perhaps a bit more stressful in the taking,

Yet all in all a necessary joy.

How might we otherwise such grace employ,

Opening on schedule our hearts,

Long absent from the place where longing starts,

In love and trembling once again with those

Deep down enough to go where none else goes.

Ah! Now we are again as we must be,

Yielding to a rich complexity,

Standing where the fount of selfhood flows.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Happy Holidays

12/2: Have No Fear of Eco-Holocaust

12/3: Happy Holidays to You and Yours

12/4: Elephants Love Holidays

12/5: Hold Within Your Heart Some Happy Tears

12/6: Holidays May Come and Go

12/7: Here We Go Again – a Holiday

Holidays May Come and Go

December 6, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week as we enter the holiday season is Happy Holidays.

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

A Happy Holidays poem about how time is relative to love:

Holidays may come and go

And moments last forever.

Praised be those whom love combines,

Passing time together.

Years are days, days are years,

However short or long.

One measures time in holidays,

Lilting into song.

In love there is a levity

Distinct from jokes or laughter,

A lifting up of life, a lightness

Yearning ever after,

Still full of joy-to-be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Happy Holidays

12/2: Have No Fear of Eco-Holocaust

12/3: Happy Holidays to You and Yours

12/4: Elephants Love Holidays

12/5: Hold Within Your Heart Some Happy Tears

12/6: Holidays May Come and Go

Hold Within Your Heart Some Happy Tears

December 5, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week as we enter the holiday season is Happy Holidays.

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

A Happy Holidays poem about the need for and uses of happy tears:

Hold within your heart some happy tears,

And let them irrigate your desert days.

Plant some roses in among your fears,

Placed to add some grace to every gaze.

Your love is rain and sunshine to your world.

Happiness follows from the gift of giving.

On your ramparts leave your flag unfurled --

Let the wind proclaim your joy in living!

In holidays find cause for celebration,

Dancing to the old, familiar tunes,

As time needs now and then a well-timed station,

Yielding to accommodate relation,

Stopping for some cheer as winter looms.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Happy Holidays

12/2: Have No Fear of Eco-Holocaust

12/3: Happy Holidays to You and Yours

12/4: Elephants Love Holidays

12/5: Hold Within Your Heart Some Happy Tears

Elephants Love Holidays

December 4, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week as we enter the holiday season is Happy Holidays.

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

A Happy Holidays poem to a child, imagining a variety of animals enjoying the holidays:

Elephants love holidays,

And camels, rhinos, sharks,

Free to play all day in playgrounds,

Free to run in parks.

Buffaloes love holidays,

And bears and wolves and deer.

Their families get together then,

With all their loved ones near.

Triceratops love holidays,

And little girls and boys,

‘Cause that’s when they get presents, and

Can play with their new toys!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Happy Holidays

12/2: Have No Fear of Eco-Holocaust

12/3: Happy Holidays to You and Yours

12/4: Elephants Love Holidays

Happy Holidays to You and Yours

December 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week as we enter the holiday season is Happy Holidays.

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

A Happy Holidays poem about the holidays as a meeting place of generations both alive and dead:

Happy holidays to you and yours!

A wish for days of laughter, love, and pleasure.

Perhaps your lives could profit from the pause.

Perhaps you'll use the time to count your treasure.

Years of holidays enrich the heart,

Holding memories that do not fade.

Old times blend with new through homespun art,

Long savored as the rituals are replayed.

In holidays the generations meet.

Departed souls take once again their places,

Alive as once again the words repeat,

Yielding galleries of once-grieved faces

Singing with us, indistinct but sweet.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Happy Holidays

12/2: Have No Fear of Eco-Holocaust

12/3 Happy Holidays to You and Yours

Have No Fear of Eco-Holocaust

December 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week as we enter the holiday season is Happy Holidays.

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

A Happy Holidays poem imagining a guardian angel protecting against an eco-holocaust:

Have no fear of eco-holocaust!

An angel is assigned to make things right,

Poised above the heavens day and night,

Precisely placed to pinpoint what is lost.

You needn't worry – he or she will know,

Having overseen such things before

On other worlds distressed by waste or war,

Like Agttth and Wukttth, just what will work below.

In these days of joyful celebration,

Do, then, for contentment find a cause

As real as fuel-less flames or Santa Claus,

Yielding holiday hope for Earth's salvation,

So long as angels rewrite nature’s laws!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Happy Holidays

12/2: Have No Fear of Eco-Holocaust

Fulfillment Is a Song That One Must Sing

December 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is The Gifts of Life, in honor of Thanksgiving, which this year is celebrated on Thursday, November 28.

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

A philosophical number poem about the effort needed to sustain one’s gifts:

Fulfillment is a song that one must sing

Or bear the sullen silence of the heart.

Remember: Love of life requires music,

The joy one dances to throughout the day,

Yearning for the gifts one has sustained.

Every gift is one that one must bring

Into one’s daily life with skill and art,

Giver and receiver both, or lose it,

Having lost a few along the way,

Though treasuring still the ones one has retained.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Gifts of Life

11/25: Sixty-Seven’s in Her Golden Years

11/26: Forty-Five Is Wiser than Before

11/27: Eleven Embraces Each Breathtaking Day

11/28: There Is No Substitute for Gratitude

11/29: For You the Earth Shall Bring Forth Greater Glory

11/30: Salvation Is a Song That One Can Sing

12/1: Fulfillment Is a Song That One Must Sing