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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Sonnet CCLXXIX

A new year spreads before me like a snowy page,
another leaf of white awaiting marks and prints.
So much to use – escaping from my fingertips –
a plane of eager time poised on the newer age.

Envisioning what fresher seasons shall engage,
I look – anticipating – to these fields and hints
of what’s to come. The future wakes from sleeping fits –
reluctant – starting unto human guessing games.

The seconds, glittering, unbutton in the snow,
their shining flakes like frosty jewels in the cold!

There’s much anticipation – moods change much within a day –
from boredom of the past to welcoming the new.
The minutes fly – time’s racing by – the skies are blue!
The snowflakes fall – the year’s alight – and so’s the fray!

5 comments:

  1. Happy Chinese New Year to all in the OX-ident! ;P

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  2. Happy Chinese New Year, too!
    Get any lai see?

    Michael.

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  3. By the way..."Occident" means the Western countries, so yesterday was Chinese Year in the OX-ident because it's the year of the Ox...ha...ha...ha...? [insert chirping crickets]

    Get any lai see? o.o (Is that Cantonese...?)

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  4. Very nice to read a poem with so much hope in it.

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  5. Yay! I have been very depressed recently, for reasons that I will not disclose. :(

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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

- Emily Dickinson

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