for the new year
I wrote this to welcome the new year in 2008, but I guess it is still relevant today. "Welcome" may not be the correct word to describe this poem, "Cynicism" maybe, but that's me sometimes.
I am posting this for Thursday's Poets Rally Week 59.
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 ) 2011
I am posting this for Thursday's Poets Rally Week 59.
photo by YunPing
image enhanced by dsnake1
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
********
To my dear readers, Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy and Creative 2012!
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2011
Labels: landscape, Poetry, Thursday Poets' Rally
posted by dsnake1 at 12:38 AM
14 Comments:
A timeless piece indeed. The formatting rocks, good job! :)
happy rally!
http://lynnaima.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/unhinged-reconstruction-meq/
lynnaima,
thanks for describing this a a "timeless piece" :)
glad you like the formatting. well, it's supposed to be water flowing and sunlight scattering. :)
Have a Happy and Wonderful New Year!
Timeless, for sure. Very appropriate in these times, too.
http://charleslmashburn.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/another-will-be-born/
thank you, charles, for your comment. :)
Have a Happy New Year!
The rain is always free when it falls. It's how much we enjoy it that has a cost. Smiles...
wise words, booguloo.
thanks for the visit! :)
this is divine.
well done.
thank you, Snowflakes. :)
wow.
impressed.
thank you. Taylor! :)
I like your imagery and the way the format mirrors the seeking nature of the rain and the sun.
You mention cynicism in your intro-- but I see other things here, either in addition, or instead of. I might not have read this as a cynical poem at all otherwise.
Washing away dead leaves is an important cleansing part of the cycle, as is the sun's warming and drying things out.
I guess maybe you are imagining a day or a year that has too much of one or the other, which of course is a problem.
Elaine,
thanks for the visit! i love comments like yours because they help me to understand my own poem better. i mentioned cynicism because i am not going to write a warm greeting card type poem. when i wrote this some things were weighing on my mind so i was wondering which path the new year will take, water flowing into a dark drain or the sunlight striking everywhere. you mentioned that washing away dead leaves is an important cleansing part of the cycle. what you said is true, but it didn't cross my mind then when i wrote this, so maybe subconsciously i was really hoping for a better year. :)
new year wishes!
thank you, Ashok. :)
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