Here We Have Another New Beginning

January 5, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.

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A more cynical Happy New Year poem about understanding that things won’t change:

Here we have another new beginning,

Another chance to be what we are not.

Praised be those who recognize the rot,

Portion out the guilt, and go on living.

Years change far more frequently than we,

Nor are our changes more than painted screens,

Each placed to maximize our meager means,

Windows on a world that none can see.

Yet, truth be told, we know well what's within.

Each resolution fails to touch the heart,

As in the end we are, as at the start,

Remorseful reprobates, half hope, half sin.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day

12/31: Here We Are Again, Another Year

1/1: Happiness Is Wholly in One’s Power

1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None

1/3: Happy New Year, Darling

1/4: Harbingers of Happiness, Awake

1/5: Here We Have Another New Beginning