for the new year
Here's some thoughts for the new year...(okay, I know this is Febraury, but I have been very busy, and I plan to go slow this year )
After the last sparks of fireworks extinguished from the skies of the cities, and auld lang synes were sung, and ships tooted their foghorns, beer and wines were drunk and confetti flung in the air, after the songs and handshakes, did we resolve to make this world a better place than last year's? Will the guns that fire in anger stay silent longer, will prejudice be tempered with reason?
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. -- T. S. Eliot
photo by Apple
image enhanced by dsnake1
will the new year
will
the new day
be
like
water
from
the rainfall
that
runs
with the
dead leaves
into
the culverts,
to be
lost,
knowing
they
cannot fight
the
pull of
gravity,
or
like the
sunrays
of the
new
morning,
scattering
off
tree leaves,
the eaves
of buildings,
angular
and sharp,
filling
every corner
every crevice,
curious,
piercing
and free
?
31/12/07
********
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 )
After the last sparks of fireworks extinguished from the skies of the cities, and auld lang synes were sung, and ships tooted their foghorns, beer and wines were drunk and confetti flung in the air, after the songs and handshakes, did we resolve to make this world a better place than last year's? Will the guns that fire in anger stay silent longer, will prejudice be tempered with reason?
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. -- T. S. Eliot
photo by Apple
image enhanced by dsnake1
will the new year
will
the new day
be
like
water
from
the rainfall
that
runs
with the
dead leaves
into
the culverts,
to be
lost,
knowing
they
cannot fight
the
pull of
gravity,
or
like the
sunrays
of the
new
morning,
scattering
off
tree leaves,
the eaves
of buildings,
angular
and sharp,
filling
every corner
every crevice,
curious,
piercing
and free
?
31/12/07
********
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 )
posted by dsnake1 at 11:20 PM
9 Comments:
this is a powerful one
you're back with a bang
and most welcome
cheers dsnake
i love the prose part and the verse... they complement each other very well
floots,
thank you! in fact i wrote this on new year's eve and only recently got around to work on it ( the line breaks and some spell check ). :)
polona,
i thought of editing off the prose section when i was about to publish it, but decided to leave it intact in the end. :)
beautiful!!!!
thank you, magiceye. :)
I do fervently hope the latter prevails, though most days I do feel gravity's pull strongly... In such case, vigilance becomes a virtue. ;)
A thought-provoking post. Cheers.
:)
i too hope the latter prevails. i hope to have more light, and not just because i really need to go and change my spectacles. :)
I hope for the latter. :)
thanks, Liz!
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