FreeJokesPoetry Presents Five/5 Best Poems for New Year 2011
1- N ew Year's falls just at the darkest hours
N ew Year's falls just at the darkest hours,
E ven as the sun lies sick and dying.
W hen the darkness turns hope starts anew,
Y ear by year a lesson ever true,
E ach of us the bitter cold defying.
A ll my life I want to be with you,
R estoring year by new year what is ours.
2- How Beautiful the Turning of the Year
How beautiful the turning of the year!
A moment artificial yet profound:
Point upon an arbitrary chart
Passing like a breath upon the heart,
Yearning with anticipation wound,
New hope new harbored in old-fashioned cheer.
Even when the boundary line is clear,
We recognize the oneness of the ground.
Years, like circles, do not end or start
Except we lay across their truth our art,
Adjusting dates as they go round and round
Revolving to a tune long sung and dear.
3- Welcome to the New Year
Hey, my lad, ho, my lad!
Here's a New Broom.
Heaven's your housetop
And Earth is your room.
Tuck up your shirtsleeves,
There's plenty to do-
Look at the muddle
That's waiting for you!
Dust in the corners
And dirt on the floor,
Cobwebs still clinging
To window and door.
Hey, my lad! o, my lad!
Nimble and keen-
Here's your New Broom, my lad!
See you sweep clean.
4- H arbingers of happiness, awake!
H arbingers of happiness, awake!
A nd dreams abandoned, return from restless sleep!
P ast hopes, which bitter wanderers forsake,
P romise once again what will might reap!
Y ears turn and turn, at each new turn reborn,
N ew imagined by redeemers new,
E ach in turn vouchsafed a festive dawn,
W ind driven towards a sky of darker hue.
Y earning is of innocence a cause,
E mbracing with delight what ought to be,
A s once a year even truth takes pause,
R eflecting on what other eyes might see.
5- H ow sad, the year just passed! A year the past
H ow sad, the year just passed! A year the past
A rose like smoke from deep beneath the rubble,
P ouring up through fissures in the heart,
P erhaps our own as much as those of others.
Y ear of hatred writhing in raw pain,
N ear mad with certainty arrayed in faith,
E ach aggrieved alight with righteous anger,
W hirlwinds swirling through their swathes of rage.
Y et let us in the New Year look for justice,
E ver the rock on which to live in peace,
A dministered with love for every soul,
R egarding every evil as our own.
Sent by: Maria Kanellis |
