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

To Me Your Life Has Been an Inspiration

November 27, 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 an influential mentor:

To me your life has been an inspiration.
Happiness is mine because of you.
As a mountain shows our destination,
Never, in its grandeur, lost from view,
Know that you have been my moral guide.

You have shaped the one I am inside,
Opening my heart with your affection,
Underlying all I say and do.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/tomeyo.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

Thank You for Having Faith in Me

November 26, 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 from someone suffering from manic depression to a friend:

Thank you for having faith in me,
However hard it was.
An illness is compounded by
No one coming near.
Kindness can take courage when
You see what mania does.
Opening your arms to me
Unravels my own fear.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/than35.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

There Is No Gift More Precious than One's Health

November 25, 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 healthcare workers:

There is no gift more precious than one's health.
Happiness must rest upon that ground.
Alight with pain, no pleasure can be found,
Nor joy in love or beauty, words or wealth.
Know that I am grateful for your skill,
Your sensitivity and dedication.
Out of strength, I dreaded all sensation
Until your healing touch restored my will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/there4.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

Thank You for the Favor of Your Seed

November 24, 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 a non-commercial sperm donation:

Thank you for the favor of your seed,
Half my child, who will be mine alone,
A part of you dispassionately sown,
Nor have I of you any other need.
Kindness is your only motivation,
Yet in this act you're being more than kind,
Opening a window to the wind,
Unloosing to my heart half your creation.

© by Nicholas Gordon

To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/than39.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