Poetry Solace: Of the Old and New Year..

Here are a couple of poems about the year...

The Year by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What can be said in New Year rhymes,

That's not been said a thousand times?

The new years come, the old years go,

We know we dream, we dream we know.

We rise up laughing with the light,

We lie down weeping with the night.

We hug the world until it stings,

We curse it then and sigh for wings.

We live, we love, we woo, we wed,

We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,

And that's the burden of a year.

Several nice haiku poems by Kobayashi Issa,
taken from The Haiku Guy

苦にやんだ元日するや人並に
ku ni yanda ganjitsu suru ya hito nami ni
translated: I struggled through, the New Year, like everyone else.

目出度さもちう位也おらが春
medetasa mo chuo kurai nari oraga haru
translated:  Happy New Year, about average, my spring

とし神やことしも御世話下さるる
toshi-gami ya kotoshi mo o-sewa kudasaruru
translated: O New Year's god, this year too, send help



Happy New Year, everyone!! Have a blessed 2012!!
Stay healthy and safe!