Happy, Happy Holidays to You

Subscribe to this site on Substack

Subscribe to this site on YouTube

Subscribe to this site on Medium

Follow this site on Facebook

Follow this site on Instagram

Hear me read
the poem as
an MP3 file.

Watch me read
the poem as
a YouTube video.

Audio and Video Music:
Maio Maduro Maio.
By Lovira.
Performed by Lovira
at the Free Music Archive
under an Attribution-
ShareAlike

license.

Alpha List

Happy
Holidays
Poems

About This
Site

Poems for
Free

Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

Happy, happy holidays to you!
A bit of joy before the winter comes,
Pausing for a holiday or two,
Pausing where the ancient stream still runs.
You know, but cannot know, the generations
Having millennia before you come this way,
Over many rites and revelations
Looking to this turn of light to pray.
In each of us the ancient urge still lives,
Dressed in more contemporary clothes,
A cultural inheritance that gives
You something precious to bequeath to those
Still ready to feel joy down to their toes.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

Audio and Video Music: Maio Maduro Maio. By Lovira. Performed by
Lovira at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution-ShareAlike license.

[about this site] [poems for free] [poem of the week]
[site policy] [about me] [links]