My Dear Readers/Fellow Poets:
Today is the first day of 2021. Share with you the following poems to ring out the old and ring in the new: Life is change, but growth is optional.
the column of sparks
from the fountain rises
on New Year's eve
how do I start this time
with an end
Angelo B. Ancheta
last day of the year
poems I could have written ...
a bulbul follows
drifting leaves
to the stone cairn
Sonam Chhoki
a fresh leaf
white in the winter
of a new year;
it seems a shame
to mar it with words
M. Kei
in five-seven-five
I compact confusing thoughts ...
New Year's morning dew
Damir Janjalija
first sunrise
of the year
the unexpected journey
of a child
from her womb
Ernesto P. Santiago
new year saké ...
the gradual dimming
of your flaws
Roberta Beary
To conclude today's New Year post, the following two poems, one tanka and one haiku sequence, reveal my view of this coming year: "celebrants" and "survivors" usher in a new year:
on Brexit Day
snow with brief sleet ... (note: Today's weather in London)
a masked old man
holding freedom
in his bony hand
The End of the Beginning
to Trump Party faithfuls, including Trump himself and the Trumps in the wall-to-wall mirrors of his presidential suite in the Trump Tower.
dying of the year
his face shadowed by the brim
of a MAGA hat
new year's clean-up
a pile of Four More Years
dumped on the curbside
2024 run
in a world of falling snow
the sound of wind
Added: Day 2 of Brexit, a sequel to "Brexit Day" tanka:
a Brexiteer
beneath slate-grey skies (note: Today's weather in London)
his drunken shadow
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