Happy, Happy Holidays to You2

December 4, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Happy Holidays poem to a grandniece about how her great-uncle’s years of love for her grandfather translate into close ties of love between him and her:

Happy, happy holidays to you!
A chance to wish you well, and to renew,
Perhaps, the ties that bind us to each other,
Perhaps to strengthen those we might uncover.
You are bound to me by years of love,
However distant they might to you prove,
Old, persistent childhood memories
Lingering like poignant melodies,
In which your grandfather, a child like me,
Dreamed of what his future life might be,
As I worshipped him, my older brother,
Years and years before his first-born daughter
Sang you in her knowing arms to sleep.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/hap100.html. For more Happy Holidays poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Holiday Season
November 30: How Good to Celebrate Both Holidays
December 1: Here We Have Three Holidays
December 2: Health and Happiness to You and Yours
December 3: There Is No Better Time than Now
December 4: Happy, Happy Holidays to You2

There Is No Better Time than Now

December 3, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Happy Holidays poem to a child of mixed religious heritage about the holidays as a time of celebration:

There is no better time than now
To celebrate and sing
The music of the holidays,
The songs that sweet thoughts bring!

Holidays are happy days,
Full of joy and fun,
Candles, lights, menorahs, trees,
And gifts for everyone!

Though the days are short and cold,
There is no better time
To laugh and play and happy be,
And generous and kind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/ther45.html. For more Happy Holidays poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Holiday Season
November 30: How Good to Celebrate Both Holidays
December 1: Here We Have Three Holidays
December 2: Health and Happiness to You and Yours
December 3: There Is No Better Time than Now

Health and Happiness to You and Yours

December 2, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Happy Holidays poem about dressing up holiday wishes in poetry:

Health and happiness to you and yours!
A wish that wings its way from heart to heart,
Pleasure's plenty, drawn from ample stores,
Poised to be converted into art.
Yet rhyme and meter are but bits of grace
Here to shape a feeling into song.
One has words one dresses up in lace
Lest for this more casual dress seem wrong.
Into greetings one pours all one's passion,
Destined for a well-worn, classic mold,
A fancy flaunting of poetic fashion
Yielding all the wish a heart can hold,
Singing, that the wish be sweetly told.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/healt2.html. For more Happy Holidays poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Holiday Season
November 30: How Good to Celebrate Both Holidays
December 1: Here We Have Three Holidays
December 2: Health and Happiness to You and Yours

Here We Have Three Holidays

December 1, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Happy Holidays poem to a child describing the three year-end holidays as three birds singing together in the snow:

Here we have three holidays,
All three in a row,
Perhaps like three bright songbirds
Perched upon the snow,
Yearly perched just so!

Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's Day
Open up in song,
Lighting winter's darkest hours
In trills both sweet and strong,
Delighting children everywhere
As these three birds the season share,
Yielding joys beyond compare.
So come! Let's sing along!

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/here10.html. For more Happy Holidays poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Holiday Season
November 30: How Good to Celebrate Both Holidays
December 1: Here We Have Three Holidays

How Good to Celebrate Both Holidays

November 30, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

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

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

A Happy Holidays poem to a child who is half Christian and half Jewish:

How good to celebrate both holidays
And double your enjoyment of the season,
Pleased to look ahead with double reason,
Pleased with memories that go both ways.
Years will give to them a deep, rich glaze.

How lucky to inherit both traditions --
One Christian and one Jewish -- and to know
Lovely rituals from long ago
In long-familiar, family-wrought renditions.
Days of winter are too short, but nights
Are filled with melodies and festive lights.
Year's end brings holidays you long will treasure,
Seasonal joys that give you lasting pleasure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/howgoo.html. For more Happy Holidays poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html .

This week’s theme: The Holiday Season
November 30: How Good to Celebrate Both Holidays

Thank You for Naming Yours After Our Own

November 29, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Thanksgiving, is saying thank you.

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

A thank you poem for naming someone after a deceased loved one:

Thank you for naming yours after our own,
Holding a bit of his being in place.
A name is a mask for a sojourning soul,
Nothingness left with a word for a face,
Knight of the night seeking honor alone.

Your kindness has given his memory a trace
Of the living, that he might by name still be known,
Undoing the darkness that death would make whole.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/than28.html. For more thank you poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thankyoupoems.hmtl .

This week’s theme: Saying Thank You
November 23: Thank You All for All That You Have Done
November 24: Thank You for the Favor of Your Seed
November 25: There Is No Gift More Precious than One’s Health
November 26: Thank You for Having Faith in Me
November 27: To Me Your Life Has Been an Inspiration
November 28: Please Accept My Gratitude
November 29: Thank You for Naming Yours After Our Own

Please Accept My Gratitude

November 28, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week, in honor of Thanksgiving, is saying thank you.

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

A thank you poem to in-laws:

Please accept my gratitude
For being who you are.
You came along with my beloved,
The landscape of his life.

And yet I would have chosen you,
Were you not simply there.
For I twice blessed in love have proved --
As daughter and as wife.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/pleas6.html. For more thank you poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/thankyoupoems.html .

This week’s theme: Saying Thank You
November 23: Thank You All for All That You Have Done
November 24: Thank You for the Favor of Your Seed
November 25: There Is No Gift More Precious than One’s Health
November 26: Thank You for Having Faith in Me
November 27: To Me Your Life Has Been an Inspiration
November 28: Please Accept My Gratitude