January 1, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is New Year’s Day.
Today’s poem is a Happy New Year poem about the beauty of
the moment when one year ends and another begins.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
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.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/howbea.html.
For more New Year’s poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/newyearsdaypoems.html.
This week’s theme: New Year’s Day
December 26: Here’s a Happy Harbinger
December 27: Happiness Depends on More than Years
December 28: Hope Is Often Rented by the Year
December 29: Hours Mean No More or Less than Years
December 30: Millennia Are Fairly Common Things
December 31: New Years Are a Chance for a Beginning
January 1: How Beautiful the Turning of the Year
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