Introspection New Years Day Poems

("Night Sky Serpent", 2013, original pen and ink)

Sitting With The Wood Dragon

For over forty-five years 
I’ve been meditating on and off, 
Some times a lot,...

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Bidding adieu to a year now past,
Cherishing new dreams and hopes cast . 

From memories, you gently fade,
In echoes, where you've  stayed. 


Resolutions anew,...

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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 will take a little walk

or a long walk,

God guides my fate
my footsteps – His
Christ, the light upon
my path, though
darkness on earth
yet reigneth. 

He shows
me...

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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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ITS RESOLUTION TIME, AGAIN?
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



Well it’s resolution time again, the end of the year
I’ll plan ahead and use my willpower, so that I can...

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A new sunrise, a new beginning

Now, is the time to keep the promises
Everything in my life changing
Weakness withers as courage rises

Years, months, days of endless...

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The first poem of the new year written while
sitting on Kuhio Street and begun when
I followed a lady of the night awhile
as she staggered down...

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Stop judging harshly 
Wipe the "doormat" off my head
Learn to love myself.









(To achieve these goals is a process, but I am determined to get there.)...

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Franny & Angie

          went out walking
          ...

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