Best Chinese New Year Poems
The second day of the Chinese New Year
Tradition has it say
That the son in law visits
His mother in law
Guest of honour on this day
She treats him like a king
When time to go back home
Gives him two lotus lanterns
One red and one white alone
Time of the lantern festival
At home when with his wife
He hangs them at end of bed
Lights them with a candle, to be read
If the White one burns out first
A Boy they will be blessed
If the Red one burns out first
A girl will grace the nest
This tradition is dying out a shame is what I say
The son in law has a right to be the guest this day
Cos mother in law always says she is right
To be second best one day is an internal fight
Red envelope
Bursting with luck
Dragons dancing in the street
The Lunar Cycle
Holiday of fifteen days
Red lanterns shed light
Spring festival
Auspicious colours
Painting town red
Reunion dinner
Grand celebration
Hearts aligned
Homeward bound
To gather again
Good times come around
Joy sings
Spring chorus;
Familiar red packets
Laughing faces
Jolly feasting:
Memory subscribes
Are you ready for a brand new year
The spring festival coming
So let’s all cheer
The lunar calendar starts again
It’s time to clean the cobwebs my friend
Gifts of red envelope’s everywhere
This is the Chinese New Year
The year of the sheep
The ram, the goat
Bring your fire crackers to make the most
Don’t forget those tangerines
They symbolize good luck and prosperity
You could bring some lovely oranges too
For friends and relations
Waiting for you
Now the fruit is their beloved gift
But wearing red, is that just a myth
Whatever you do
Do not wear black
It resembles death and we don’t like that
Pineapple lanterns in every colour
They look so sweet
Hanging in the summer
This also stands for prosperity
The mandarins are so very keen
The mother of pearl
Will bring you good fortune
You’re live in abundance
With the well of the fish
And eat every good portion with that dish
Now don’t forget your spring cleaning
But beware of that broom
After all it’s cheating
Bring in the new and out with the old
So this New Year could bring you gold
Last but not least, let your child lay
So you can fulfil your ripe old age
The longer they sleep
The more time for you
Add on the years restoring your youth
Gong Hei Fard Choy everybody
© Copyright KC. Leake
9th January 2015
All Rights Reserved
A festive feel in red and gold:
Chinatown deals Goat year most grand.
A splash of will as joy unfolds:
A Chinese fill as cheer attends.
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This lunar year arrives with truth:
Our kindred ties forge a fine fest.
Those who are dear gather fond proof:
Our fortunes high in lovely quest.
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Paint the town red takes new meaning:
Feel fond delight that ushers joy.
Poise favours red in warm sightings:
Feel grand insight in wealthy ploys.
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Now we visit our kin folk here:
Auspicious wit merge with fine stay.
Now each to each greet with good cheer:
Prosper and reach this happy day.
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Give red packets with blessings fond:
Touch now can live grandeur this spring.
Lucky trinkets to fill life's pond:
Joy heaps and gives as true health sings.
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Such festive joy can fill the heart:
A touch beyond primes charming feel.
Good luck funds ploy in brilliant start:
A rhyme upon a springtime fill.
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Leon Enriquez
18 February 2015
Singapore
Wonderful attributes are associated with the Chinese New Year
The Wood snake brings wisdom, creativity, intuition and growth
She symbolizes renewal, transformation, patience and understanding
The snake’s major element is Yang fire
Yang fire is associated with the sun
Thus, bringing these attributes into Year 2025
Aboveboard, selfless, cordial, ambitious, righteous, foresighted
The snake hour is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
This is when you might be the most creative or ambitious.
In China the snake is considered a little dragon.
Shy, retiring, a non-show off.
I think 2025 is represented well by the wood snake
I am eager to see what she does with us.
Once a year this day comes,
Lights flash with the sounds of the drums,
It's the New Year,
Use happiness to reach for the cure.
Bring joy 2012 today,
As the dragon brings the year to stay.
Care to those making poems,
Living life in each and every homes.
January 23rd makes history,
Be joyful in the way you see.
Traditions lay on the date,
Making the zodiac be fate,
Big dragons, big smiles, it's New Years day,
Happy New Year as they say.
Red brings fortunes,
With hope assuring everyone as wins.
Bright dancers to celebrate,
Stay up for New Years starts late.
Bringing forward for the memories to come,
New ways and new things to humm.
Bright flowers bloom to thee,
To the streets all people flow to see,
The show of time in lifes all over,
Luck be brought like a four leaf clover,
Spirits living fee in time,
Making sense of the poem; the rhyme.
The gragon year has finally made it,
The clock ticks, we wait; we sit.
Lighting up the symbols with fire,
Walking with elements of dire.
So it's the New Year today,
I send great wishes towards your way.
Connecting dots as stars so near; yet so far,
Seeing the brightest of all; the North star.
Happy days for our 2012 time,
Saving the words for the beat of the rhyme.
This card is for what the New Year has on its way,
Each of us putting our cards into play.
Happy New Year for it's the dragons time to steer,
Watching close to each person; each peer.
This day comes once, so play,
Lets celebrate for it leaves fast; please stay,
Happy New Year-hope all stays well,
As one keeps wisdom the cover of our life; the shell.
Beauty now flings
Blessings of spring.
Beauty makes room
For spring time blooms.
Beauty now sings
As joy greets spring.
Beauty and peace
Happy times please.
Beauty knows best
How to live fest
Beauty knows soul
As joy sculpts whole.
Beauty lives well
Just where love dwells.
Beauty in time
Words sacred rhymes.
Beauty and wit
Allow fond fit.
Beauty styles smiles
In touch worthwhile.
Leon Enriquez
06 February 2016
Singapore
(Note: To everyone who celebrates
the Chinese Lunar New Year festival --
I wish you Gong Xi Fa Cai.)
When the Fire Horse rises, it climbs the empty ridge;
clouds step aside, mountains dare not breathe, seasons lose their order,
shadow runs ahead of time, men dare not speak—
the omen enters the record, and Heaven sounds the bell.
The Horse walks between, yet all paths begin
where the endless river flows eastward
toward the Mountain where Heaven begins again.
Chinese New Year
Ushering in a brand new year
In the name of equality and democracy
Chinese worldwide are celebrating
globally
We invite you to join the happiness and the prosperity ahead
We pray for the world to become
peaceful and prosperous
Hopefully
We don't live alone
And we don't celebrate alone
And we don't pray alone
Chinese New Year 2022 *
Oh no! again they've cancelled the Lion Dance
And the Dragons are also put on hold
How I longed to see them gyrate and prance
But the covid virus is still uncontrolled.
The sound of the drums, the cymbals and gongs
So intense and loud we jump with glee
Brilliant red lanterns and cheering throngs -
Their absence will be felt deploringly.
But we can visit the street booths in Chinatown
And wish our neighbors Kung Hei Fat Choy
We'll muster good cheer despite being let down
And firecrackers and Fa Gao we'll still enjoy.
Thus, we will celebrate Chinese New Year
Hopeful that the Tiger's strength will prevail
With his courage and prowess he'll banish our fear
And each hurdle we meet, we'll triumphantly scale.
Molly Moore
* Chinese New Year is a significant celebration in the culture of Hawaii.
All around the world in every nation,
it is the start of a fifteen day celebration.
There are red envelopes and gifts exchanged.
Numerous traditional events have been arranged.
Reunion dinners are held, and firecrackers are ablaze.
Plenty of activities take the stage during nights and days.
Many are conducted to chase evil spirits away.
The lantern festival is held on the last day.
We welcome this new year of the dragon.
Let all of those great festivities begin.
i’ve heard of the year of the rooster but 2025—is the year of the kookoo
(Note: This is an acrostic sonnet.)
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Ask love to grace this lunar year:
Live bounty wise with peace of mind,
Urge health to trace grand fond good cheer;
Now springs surprise with wealth that binds,
Apt blossoms bloom in touch of spring;
Reap what you sow with soul put right.
Endow heart's room with affluent things,
Ample thoughts grow sheer fortune bright;
Reach and feel good in festive flair,
Thrill loving smiles now face to face;
Heap happy moods as beauty airs.
Dance dreamy style here with pure trace,
Opt for kind poise as wonder dwells,
Glimpse dog's sheer voice in new year's spell!
Leon Enriquez
16 February 2018
CNY Day #1, Spring
Singapore