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Open Poetry #17

Farewell, Auld Lang Syne

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Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-12-31 11:32 AM

Farewell, Auld Lang Syne

gently
large, white flakes fall from a gray-white sky
sprinkling fairy-dust as the minutes go by

coating the land with a layer of white
washing from view remnants of dust,
rust, autumn’s crust

chill seeps through the glass
as yellow dog investigates the grass
licking, sniffing,tip-toeing with his paws

pauses a moment as if frozen in time
then lays a big one there in the rime

and I
taken aback with my lack of premonition
as I suffer the day in a pondering condition
contemplating the passing of the final hours of the year
when the night will bend and fold away the past
then commence the new of two-thousand-two

somewhere the stars twinkle a farewell to contrived hours,
days, months and the year
as we give way to hope edged with a tiny bit of fear
what will it hold, this new one ahead,
dare we plan for no tragedies,
dare we hope for no dread

dare we cling to a tiny thread
of expectation, of promise,
that wherever we are brought
He is there and will bring us through
in His perfected will? We must, surely, we must...TRUST.

©December 31, 2001

I almost feel like I should preface this with, "Stuff happens!" :O} So, alas, I placed the remark here, at the end.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-12-31 12:05 PM

Virginia, I wish you and yours the Happiest of New Years...and peace shall reign...

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