Death in the New Year
Our hands are tied, Death
Since you dawned on us this New Year . . .
Shapely bottles of champagnes have shone
And have broken to fragments with the ululation
Of firecrackers that warmed cold and dark wintry skies.
Now, aphonia sets in from unending lamentations.
Headlines, buried by the chilly bones of winter,
Are barren of good tidings.
A chionophile besieges the
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Categories:
new year, death, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
A Poem for a Year's Ending
By Michael Parker
Days have flown quickly by like fearsome comets.
Here then gone; here then gone.
My hair is colored moonlight.
My bones are brittle as the limbs
of the trees cracking
from the touch of winter’s deepening freeze.
If I could disclose a secret, it is
suffering has visited me like an old
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Categories:
inspirational, introspection, new year,
Form: Free verse
Days
Amazing, beautiful
Sunshine
Moonlight
Nighttime
Brightness
Clouds in the air
Whispering winds flowing
Blowing unknowingly
Days upon days
Elated, joyful
The days.
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Categories:
new year, adventure, beautiful, day, new
Form: Free verse
New World Order
> There is a new world rising,
Not in thunder, not in fire—
But in a silence so deep,
It echoes across the galaxies.
181 nations, long forgotten by history’s biased pen,
Have gathered—not in conflict, but in covenant.
From the ruins of colonial greed,
A golden phoenix stirs.
The old gods of currency—Dollar, Euro, Pound—
Fall like crumbling idols.
In their place, a New
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Categories:
change, love, new year,
Form: Free verse
Auld Lang Sighs
It doesn’t happen everyday
Through perilous weather, flies Santa’s sleigh
Reflecting in the Winter sun
Are its legs, in gunmetal grey
Yet as Christmas Eve turns to Morning
Falling behind red-silk and cotton
Among the frost
One’s mind is lost
And all else is forgotten
The children play with what was brought
Without as much as a second thought
From where these marvellous gifts came
Or in
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Categories:
new year, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
New year Eve delight
Midnight's zero hour draws ever near,
With bated breath, we await the cheer for new year .
Unfazed by cold, our spirits run high,
As nostalgia whispers sweet and bitter sighs.
Everyone hustles for parties, friends, and family
Gathering to cherish moments, dancing to music's melody.
The celebration euphoric, a grand adieu to the past,
Honoring 2024, as it leaves us
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Categories:
new year, 10th grade, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Chinese New Year
i’ve heard of the year of the rooster but 2025—is the year of the kookoo
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Categories:
new year, political,
Form: Monoku
Dancing Into the Unknown
The old year fades, its echoes drifting light,
A newborn spark ignites the midnight sky.
We laugh, we drink, we dance into the night,
A fleeting wish, a dream that longs to fly.
Resolutions sworn in candle’s sight,
Yet whispered vows may fade as days go by.
But in this hour, with hope and love we glow,
The past
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Categories:
new year, new years
Form: Ottava rima
A Wish Upon A Star - Video Lyrics by Michael Tor - POTD
POTD 24TH Feb 2025
A Wish Upon A Star – Video Lyrics by Michael Tor
DESCRIPTION
A romantic ballad of longing and serendipity, captures the emotions of a lonely soldier in “Wish Upon A Star” as he wanders around, looking for a place to spend New Year’s Eve. On returning from deployment, he’d received a ‘Dear John’ letter
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Categories:
new year, lonely, lost love, new
Form: Ballad
What is a Name?
Name
What is a name?
No, listen what does it mean?
You see me. You know my name.
But do you know my name?
I go by the name she chose,
But I long for the name I’d choose.
So, when you look at me and wonder,
"What is his name?"
And I reply, "That’s for you to decide,"
Give me one.
Keep it to yourself,
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Categories:
new year, age, anniversary, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse
New year declaration
We were on our own
Minding our business
Weighed down by crushing unemployment
Thoroughly disillusioned by the art of promise and fail
We were disoriented by the perennial lie
Of being leaders of tomorrow
While we watched the promised future
Dissipate before our very eyes
Stolen by evil forces that have held the country
Down since after the
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Categories:
new year, anger, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Happy Anniversary Poetry Soup
A haven of words, a poet’s delight,
Where verses dance in morning light.
Ink spills freely, hearts take flight,
In PoetrySoup, our souls unite.
Through rhymes and rhythms, joy and pain,
Lines like rivers, thoughts unchained.
A home for dreamers, bold and free,
A world of wonder, poetry.
Years have passed, yet still you stand,
A guiding light, a poet’s land.
So here’s to more—may
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Categories:
new year, birthday, encouraging, feelings, new
Form: Rhyme
On a New Year's day
Located where the mountains and the sky collide,
The great pagoda floats amid the sea of clouds,
With a luxuriant garden stretching far and wide,
And solemn sculptures monitoring the sacred ground.
Along the thousand steps up to the holy site,
The usual peaceful atmosphere is swept away
By swarms of people coming for the New Year’s rite,
Who slowly trudge ahead
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Categories:
new year, religion,
Form: Quatrain
2025 Year of the Wood Snake
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
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Categories:
new year, culture,
Form: Free verse
Third day of CNY
2025.1.31
Third and final formal celebration day.
Three main days of CNY,
Have peacefully enjoyed by many Chinese.
The affluent people will continue
Celebrate upto 14 days.
The red packets, AngPao or lixi
Will be given out to friends and distance relatives.
I had given two to BB,
I believe he is single and still available.
This Sunday, the Lions dances
Will be demonstrated in the
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Categories:
new year, celebration, dance, friend, happy,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of New Year Poems
Definition | What is New Year in Poetry?