Sentimental Moments Are Well Planned

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December 9, 2019

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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 the beautiful, nostalgic sentimentality of the season:

Sentimental moments are well planned,

Entering the heart on schedule.

Although for some the feeling may seem canned,

Some find resonance in ritual.

On certain days there is an expectation,

Nostalgic in advance, of happiness,

Stirred by rich, repetitive sensation,

Graced by care, italicized by stress.

Render, then, your holidays with such

Emotion as befits the time and place,

Evoking what will never be too much

To feel within the beauty you embrace.

In sentimental moments there's a sense

Not merely of the will but of the whence,

Good feeling that is resident within,

Summoned up to sing what long has been.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Season’s Greetings

12/9: Sentimental Moments Are Well Planned

Here Are Moments Sweet and Everlasting

December 8, 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.

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A Happy Holidays poem about how love is both of and beyond time:

Here are moments sweet and everlasting,

A time for celebration, song, and cheer.

Perhaps it’s something more than joy in passing;

Perhaps it’s something more than simply here.

Yes, love exists in time, like us, like sunlight,

Having, like us, a contingent cause.

Over time, however, it, like starlight,

Leads us to what seem like higher laws.

In love one finds the gravity of living,

Desire for joy, for ecstasy, for life,

A force that grants more goodness in the giving,

Yielding parent and child, man and wife,

Solicitude that binds all souls in meaning.

© 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

12/8: Here Are Moments Sweet and Everlasting

Here We Go Again -- a Holiday

December 7, 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 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