How Might One Be Happy but by Loving

December 6, 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 love as the source of happiness:

How might one be happy but by loving?
All one is will vanish in the sea.
Perhaps the point of life is in the sharing.
Perhaps the soul's beyond the shores of me.
Years pass, and what does one accumulate?
How might one find permanence in time?
Only love such hunger compensates,
Lending life its beauty line by line.
In everything there is, there is a flame
Deeper than the passions one can name,
An oil lamp that never will go out
Yielding light beyond belief or doubt,
Source of all that answers loss and pain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/howm12.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
December 5: Holidays Are Happy Days2
December 6: How Might One Be Happy but by Loving

Holidays Are Happy Days2

December 5, 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 the difficulty of accepting happiness:

Holidays are happy days,
Albeit with some stress.
Praised be those content to be
Pleased with happiness.
Yes, one cannot do it all,
However hard one tries.
One sacrifices much for love.
Life's a compromise.
In treasuring the things one has,
Delivered from regret,
A lover finds the holidays,
Year in and out, a song of praise,
Sung with joy. And yet …

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/holi13.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
December 5: Holidays Are Happy Days2

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