Gershon Wolf Poet Rhyme

Hip, Hip, Hurray

Hip, Hip, Hurray!

January 1 is New Year's Day!
  Is it special in any form or way?

Is there anything special in the Heavens to see?
  --Not there that I know of, or under the sea.

The day is not marked by significant event;
  Not by Christmas, or Easter, or the Six Weeks of Lent.

Yet perhaps we've a 'clean slate' at the start of the year?
  Tell me: Does yesterday's baggage poof! disappear?

And is everything really so new and so fresh?
  Did we empty and burn all of last year's trash?

Now, the Chinese and Jewish New Years have real meaning;
  But January 1, alas, seems a tad overweening. 

--Oh, hang all this negativity! Enough of this rot!
  I'm goin' out New Year's Eve; January 1's all I've got!

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Gregory Richard Barden January 20, 2018 at 2:40 AM Best wishes and congratulations on your well-earned win, Gershon - blessings, my friend! :-) Gershon Wolf January 20, 2018 at 6:34 PM Thank you, Gregory!

Line Gauthier January 17, 2018 at 9:01 PM Congrats on your win, Gershon. Well done. Gershon Wolf January 17, 2018 at 9:49 PM Thank you so much!

Janice Canerdy January 16, 2018 at 8:02 PM Thank you for entering this GREAT poem in my contest. Congratulations on your win, Gershon! Janice Gershon Wolf January 16, 2018 at 9:34 PM I'm so excited!!! I feel like I won the Miss Universe Pageant. I can't remember the last time I won anything...Oh, yes. I can. When I was seven, I won a coloring contest in a local paper. Hmmm. That's a few years ago. (LOL). Thanks!!!