a prayer for the year of the snake
It is another week before the Lunar New Year. To the Chinese diaspora, it is one of the biggest days in our calendar.
I still have lots to do, getting new clothes, spring-clean the house, stock up on food and drinks, and there's only a week to do.
The past years haven't been too kind, personally. I pray for good health and happiness for my family in this coming new year. I ask for harmony and reconciliation. This poem is not your typical festive poem, even dark, but it was written from the heart.
And yes, to all my readers everywhere, "Gong Xi Fa Cai"! :)
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image from morguefile.com
a prayer for the year of the snake
the wind must blow gently
i, we must make this peace
it is tiring, very tiring
to always clench your fist
remember to at least
let go, even for a while
and then just listen
not just the whisper
of the breeze
but through
the babble
the demon screams
in the head
just listen
again
the strings
of the heart
remember, before,
you were moved
a baby's cry in the night
the shuffle of little feet
little voices reciting poetry
and you laughed
the wind must blow gently
i, we must make this peace.
01/02/2013
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Shared on Poetry Pantry #135 at Poets United.
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2013
I still have lots to do, getting new clothes, spring-clean the house, stock up on food and drinks, and there's only a week to do.
The past years haven't been too kind, personally. I pray for good health and happiness for my family in this coming new year. I ask for harmony and reconciliation. This poem is not your typical festive poem, even dark, but it was written from the heart.
And yes, to all my readers everywhere, "Gong Xi Fa Cai"! :)
image from morguefile.com
a prayer for the year of the snake
the wind must blow gently
i, we must make this peace
it is tiring, very tiring
to always clench your fist
remember to at least
let go, even for a while
and then just listen
not just the whisper
of the breeze
but through
the babble
the demon screams
in the head
just listen
again
the strings
of the heart
remember, before,
you were moved
a baby's cry in the night
the shuffle of little feet
little voices reciting poetry
and you laughed
the wind must blow gently
i, we must make this peace.
01/02/2013
**********
Shared on Poetry Pantry #135 at Poets United.
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2013
Labels: Chinese New Year, love, lovesongs, Poetry, prayer
posted by dsnake1 at 10:29 PM
11 Comments:
A very thoughtful poem. I do appreciate poems that are written from the heart. Thank you for your heart-felt share.
Indeed sometimes making peace IS tiring. And the 'clenching of the fist' can indeed be tiresome. I do wish for you that in this, the year of the snake, the wind will blow much more gently through your life! Peace.
Thank you Mary, for your kind words. :)
You illustrate the truth within peace, the personal, internal shift that is first required on an individual level. Then it grows. and grows. Lovely writing, today.
you are right in that we must make this peace....its not an easy fight but we must take it up...i hope that heart continues into your new year man...smiles.
I do hope that things continue to get better for you--lovely, lovely write
It's puzzling how one clings on to thing that hurt sometimes. A good prayer for properly moving on.
Gong Xi Fa Cai to you, dsnake!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
I wish you
harmony
soft breezes
and calm
for this year
Kim,
thank you! i was at first hesitant to post this. too personal, i thought. :)
Brian,
thanks for the encouragement. i will take the fight into the new year. :)
Audrey,
thank you! i hope so too. :)
Ravenblack,
Gong Xi Fa Cai to you too!
there are reasons people clings on to things and we may never know them all.
hope you have a wonderful new year. :)
rallentanda,
thank you! i sure need loads of those. :D
ah you fooled me...smiles...nothing new up yet...be back in a bit to see...smiles.
sorry about that, Brian. :)
i was too busy during the New Year to write or post anything. still, managed to sneak a few visits at my fave blogs. hope to post something soon. :)
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