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[aid] => mick
[title] => The nature of the new year...
[time] => 2008-01-05 17:22:37
[hometext] => Sorry its a bit late, but this is my new year piece,(Happy new year everyone hope it was a good one) this is a poem about how down we can be the day after...
[bodytext] => No early cries disturbed their snowy halls, That pass through houses, under trees, All that joins their fingers running over walls, The chilled penumbras of the breeze, Such naked miles can only follow, As does sleep and aching heads, An evening celebration and a wallow, The new year rises, yesterday is dead, Along the cusp of wake and sleep. Through sunless windows leering evermore, Upon the cheerless drifters and the street, Whose hearts felt hope, just the night before, In public houses filled with smoke, The centre of their little world… Renouncing idols and holding every answer in a joke, Till every thought of yesteryear is hurled, But as this Earth in solace spins, And shadowed streets of frost begin to wake, They realise, no matter how there nights may sing, There vision of tomorrow starts to break, Imaginary months may usher years, As humans skim the skin of life then fall, But buried deep inside their hopeful cheers, The knowledge, that there’ll be no change at all… [comments] => 1 [counter] => 225 [topic] => 48 [informant] => zenith66 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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