New Years Poems | Examples

New Years Resolution

My new year’s resolution was to lose some weight.
Cut down on take outs and use smaller plates.
So I joined a gym to try and get fit
But lost my breath on the stairs, so took the lift.

My favourite ambition is to learn to cook.
But my food never looks like the recipe books.
The end result is often inedible.
I blame the author whose work can’t be credible.

I’ve never been very good with my hands.
As whatever I try seldom goes to plan
So decided to persevere with some D I Y
But it all fell apart, don’t ask me why.

Attempted to try some art and craft.
But my serious endeavours just made my friends laugh.
Then decided to give some gardening a try.
Yet everything I planted just seemed to die.

Joined a local choir and attempted to sing.
But all people heard was a terrible din.
You could say my life’s a disorderly mess.
But everyone’s good at something, I guess?

Interlude

Each year I spend a part of New Year’s Day
relaxing, still, in quiet solitude.
Reflecting on the past twelve months, I pray
for strength and wisdom for the brand-new year.
Included in my silent interlude
are pleas to face life's changes without fear.

I thank the Lord for blessings I've received,
including loved ones and all lessons learned.
Life is so good, and I've always believed
my blessings are far more than I have earned.

Fireplace

                                Red
                           brick hearth
                         casts love’s spark
                     lush Yuletide “flames”
                              glow

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 behind, the future yet to show.

resolution

The clock struck twelve,
but the world didn’t change—
no fireworks, no sudden clarity,
just you and me
sitting cross-legged on the carpet,
our hands sticky with spilled tea.
You laughed,
tilting your head back
like the stars might answer,
and I thought,
if this is what every year looks like,
I’ll be fine.

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 Melbourne CBD.
The Fortune tellers, palm readers, caligraphor,
And many others will be there,
The traditional New Year Chinese songs and dances
Are the entertainments of the event.
Arts and Crafts, food and drinks
Will be available for people to gain energy.
Happy Chinese New Year.
May everyone be safe, happy, healthy and has lot of money in the year of Snake.

New Year's Hope

A promise of new beginnings,
A hope for brighter tomorrows;
A time to loose from all sorrows
And bind to faith so enriching.

A promise of new beginnings,
And resolve to redeem today;
If God is for us, come what may.
A time to praise, rejoice, repent,
And reflect on the time we spent.
Let us be glad this New Year’s Day.

CNY 2nd day

2025.1.30
CNY 2nd day.
Today, the celebration continues.
People visit their distance relatives,
Their grand parents, aunties, uncles and cousins,
The CNY visiting's routine become formal and practical,
The meals is also less glamorous
There will be lobster, oysters and prawns.
The rotating hexagon box,
Full of sweets and candies are still on.
Chinese people believe,
What happens in the first three days in CNY,
Will repeat throughout the year.
I believe that is purely superstitious.
However I have already experienced two strange incidences.
I wish it will never happen again.
One was, I received no phone calls nor replies to my messages
Which I was asked to do someone favors.
The other related to "My music adventure"
Goodbye 2nd day of CNY.

Chinese New Year

2025.1.29
Hippy horay, it Chinese New Year Day.
Every Chinese, believes they are one year older,
They may not be necessary wiser.
Last night, they went to sleep,
With full of food in the fridge.
Wearing the new pyjama or night gown in bed.
Lot of fresh money notes in the purses or wallets.
So when they wake up in the morning.
Believing, every day for the rest of the year,
They shall always have food to eat.
Clothes to wear and money to spend.
They shall wear red or bright colour at least.
They greet family members and their love ones,
The nicest words and wishes to one and another.
They young and single and unmarried members,
Happily receive red packey or AngBao from parents,
Sweet lollies and cakes shall be offered.

I am in my pink floral pyjama,
All I wish was a happy and healthy life with no drama.
Happy Chinese New Year for everybody including me.

New Year Day

New Year.
Dear God,
Please bless every one a safe, peaceful and joyous 2025.
Everyone will be kind, to one another.
I have decided to keep all the communication Apps,
I will continue to keep the flame of passion from our friendship alive,
Not because of the hope to be reunited,
Not to melt your cold blooded heart,
But simply to motivate me,
To pursue all the art which you had started,
To sing and play piano,
To embroil and sew clothes,
To write poems and make lovely notes
To show I can move on and need no body.
To live a simple meaningful life happily.
In the name of Jesus, I pray.
Amen.

New Years old wishes

The clock strikes twelve, bells toll, firecrackers burst, 
A new era of time will begin all around, 
New hopes and ambitions will reignite in mind, 
Yet old wishes still would linger around in the heart. 

For peace in distant lands, 
Starvation and refugee problems will diminish, 
May kindness bloom in every land, 
And grace the touch of every hand. 

May good health and joy,  
Be  part of everyone’s life, 
May homes be filled with laughter and cheer, 
And hearts unburdened by pain or fear. 

Love eternal, a wish so pure, 
Its gentle light forever sure. 
May bonds unbroken, strong, and true, 
Bind all the years, both old and new.

Passing of the New Year

Passing of the New Year
We could have had champagne and not Buck’s fizz, but then we aren’t in showbiz. We glorify and harness God’s creation in full spirit, praising his glory. The passing of the year, nothing to fear, his goodwill to mankind, it is without deploration, acutely aware of the labour ahead-January blues, that first Monday does lamentedly lurk, far from jovial or jaunty as work is around the cruel corner. Unadorned is now the room but the fire still ablaze where the cat does lethargically laze. Snow did disrupt December endeavour and to avoid the roads, we’d be more than clever-force winds doesn’t hinder the odd ocean swimmer-madness to those who take hot wine from the beach’s cafe with views of breaking waves which battle the surfers. Many a woman is all too aware that more mincemeat won’t make a tactical nighttime dancer trimmer. A fanciful occasion for many albeit far from a duchess, but prone to impress to celebrate the New Year is without much persuasion.

Severance Pay

Time hands seconds past the minute,
winter melts the sands,
sprung barter the seeds to take root,
petals leave for lands.

Abandoned juice bathes the barren,
weather soaks wet dreams,
towering outstretched limbs fashion,
cries tear up the streams.

Quartered the core green overgrowth,
sweet fester the sour,
fertile soil sources root approach,
West turn sunset lour.

Stockers fatten wanting store shelves,
greens packaged refreshed,
farmers loaded like Christmas elves,
checks at counters cashed.

Shoppers and grocers swapping smiles,
carts staggering highs,
past harvested fields, endless miles,
as New Year's Eve, nigh's.

Happy 2025

A happy twenty twenty five
Let that smoldering that remains alive
Find the fanning winds that revive
And stoke the fire into thrive
That it may warm and light without strive

May thy wishes merge with will
And may God grant you zeal
As he hastens his covenant deal
With blessings upon blessings for your fill
One here and another hot on its heels 

Be one with your Maker
The Messiah, our breaker
Who is immensely a Giver than a taker
Who turns any gambling stacker
To a sure and certain mover and shaker 

*HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2025*

K. Muitherero

Bourbon Street

My beloved late husband and I
once strolled down Bourbon Street,
on a mild winter's afternoon.
The musicians enchanted the
atmosphere,
as sparrows lent their own songs.
We dined on gumbo al fresco
with friends,
Spanish Moss clothed ancient trees.
It wasn't yet Mardi Gras,
but we felt so festive,
with her old-time buildings
and eccentric people,
all those years ago.

This New Year's Day,
New Orleans mourns again,
her heart has the wound of loss,
as some of her innocent revelers
died an untimely and unforseen death.
The city of celebration,
candlelit for remembrance. ~

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