Introspection New Year Poems

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I meant to post this poem around New Year's Eve 2023. It found its way into my file cabinet without being shared.  Just wanted...

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New Year's resolutions are indeed must

If only you can your, confidence trust

At this time people are emotional

Not to mention, they are irrational

Foolishly make big decisions...

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This, most decadent of days,
I know cannot be more a phase,
than the air that I breathe,
December's reprieve,
little moments are bright,
in the beauty of this night,
raindrops...

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Each December I begin to write down,
           my yearly New Years pledge;
   ...

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Anacreontic Verse, Written, December 12, 2023  

the clock is clicking
it won't be long
that the year will end
and new one begin
I am writing
my resolutions
in...

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I sit
reading poems of Chinese sages
with their paintings of mountains and mist
from a thousand years ago.
Outside, snow falls like it did then,
and inside, I muse...

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Freedom has multiple 
levels of elevation 
and decent – heaven at 
the top, though many of us
seem stubbornly hell-bent…

One would think, then,
direction a true
and worthy...

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We'll; it's the new year on top of the clock
When everything's up there for grabs of the flock

That future's seem brighter when out of our...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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New Year’s Eve

I need to feel the trade winds blow
To know they have my heart in tow,

Here in the twilight of this hour
I feel the...

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Last year I learned you
But at the end of year I found me ignorant;
That's why I resolute in this new year to learn myself

From the...

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Another year's passed
In the blink of an eye
  Time to take stock
  Once more to ask
What, When and Why

What have I accomplished?
When will...

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As the New Year approaches,
I embrace revelations
With another turning point in my life
There is clarity with facts
As clear as the bright blue skies
I feel refreshed...

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CHANGING OF YEARS

The darkness overwhelms
sitting on an old com tower
well into the Plain of Reeds
watching for enemy movement
Using bunkers of a firebase
long deserted and long...

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My hands are bound
chasing rolling hand grenades 
down an alley called fortune.
Hoping for shrapnel to teethe 
while I heave up stomach acid
and try to catch...

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