Like a quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves;
the year passed by. Heaven then taught me how
to love and rhyme as I looked on world with the
glorious sun’s eye.
Though if year gone by was offered me again;
the reverie bewilders and perturbs the mind.
Would accept and waltz through the pleasure
and pain; endure its purpose in the labyrinth
of wind.
Memories flowing with drops of ink;
Weld mind and heart in perfect sync.
Photo credits: Unsplash
Inspiration from “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Posted for Poetics @ dVerse Poets Pub
OH! Those last lines, especially, are just gorgeous.
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Lovely flow to this.
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Love the ending couplet and this part rings strongly: I looked on world with the
glorious sun’s eye.
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Mind and heart in perfect sync – beautifully said!
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Mind and heart in perfect sync.. now that would be the perfect situation!
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Great ending. Lovely!
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I like the flow of words here and the way you invite us into your poem.
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So lovely, the words you use to make us think. Would we really like to live the past year over again? Or, would just remembering, and writing it down, the good and the bad parts, be enough? I enjoyed reading this very much. 🙂
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Just beautiful, Sanaa, and loved those last two lines.
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Wow, can you ever write! I love the line that inspired this poem, and really admire what you did with it. Yes, we would do it all again….
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Wonderful – a perfect way to express how it is to write poetry… Yes the ending couplet is perfect,
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Not sure I would like the year gone by to be offered to me again, but that’s just me… A melodic flow to this, very nice!
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So beautiful… It strikes with a charm that only a poem can cast!
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You use your chosen line wonderfully, and I love your closing couplet!
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The last two lines are perfection.
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That last couplet is a gem.
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Beautifully written. Love the feeling of this!
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Reliving a year well spent in penned memories. A closure.
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Interesting that we used similar themes; great minds & all that. As has been stated, your final couplet is killer good, & it is always terrific when one of us finds a poetic path through the maze, a crack in the chaos.
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I agree with De. Those last lines are extraordinary!
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I kept going back to the line – though if year gone by was offered me again –
what a great thing to ponder upon.
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A splendid read, nice and warm greetings!
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i for one.. feel..
aNew Year shAll
sTart wITh Blooms
Of DogWood Trees..
Green iS new..
i cannot
complain..
WiNter Green
lives here now
aGaiN..
iN North
Florida
cliMatic
chanGe..:)
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