Renewal
Free Verse; As the New Year dawns. . .116 total reviews
Comment from malachi1206
This was an interesting style of write and made for interesting reading lots of memorable words and statements a happy new year also good write malachi1206
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This was an interesting style of write and made for interesting reading lots of memorable words and statements a happy new year also good write malachi1206
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
Comment from daisyfly
What a great, positive and inspiring way to look at the start of a new year. We all have the chance to start new. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
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What a great, positive and inspiring way to look at the start of a new year. We all have the chance to start new. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
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Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
reply by the author on 08-Jan-2008
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Thank you for your review! I am pleased that you enjoyed my offering. Please offer suggestions for improvement as your rating of "good" indicates that it needs it. Take Care. diane
Comment from Chloe
If only the really bad stuff could be erased from our memory the 1st day of every year. Very hopeful message, I too hope to be wiser. This is a beautifully written, thoughtful poem. Chloe
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If only the really bad stuff could be erased from our memory the 1st day of every year. Very hopeful message, I too hope to be wiser. This is a beautifully written, thoughtful poem. Chloe
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
Comment from onslaught of thought
well, happy new year to you also. what a wonderful piece of work. there is much to reflect on once the new year arrives and this poem covers those points well. thank you so much for sharing and i look forward to more
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well, happy new year to you also. what a wonderful piece of work. there is much to reflect on once the new year arrives and this poem covers those points well. thank you so much for sharing and i look forward to more
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
Comment from Lance29
And wishing you the same. It looks like a great start for you, and you gave us a great poem to start. Very uplifting, and I love how you used three areas to give us hope for the year - words, paths and hopes. Thank you for sharing this.
Lance
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And wishing you the same. It looks like a great start for you, and you gave us a great poem to start. Very uplifting, and I love how you used three areas to give us hope for the year - words, paths and hopes. Thank you for sharing this.
Lance
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
Comment from Blaidd Drwg
How important it is to let the past die, and what a better time to do this than at New Year. A time full of opportunity and promise. We really need to let the past go, as you have so eloquently written in this wonderful poem.
John
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How important it is to let the past die, and what a better time to do this than at New Year. A time full of opportunity and promise. We really need to let the past go, as you have so eloquently written in this wonderful poem.
John
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
Comment from Autumn shower
It's always a delight to read your poems, Diane and this one is no exception.
The poem opens with "A New Year beckons: "
The poet reminisces the past wrought with betrayal and failed expectations. The avalanche of the distressing past is too overwhelming even with the advent of the New Year. However, she is determined to move on for
"Only a fool would stay
Manacled to the past"
Yes what wisdom. The poem ends with a resolution not to repeat the mistakes of the past, to be "a fool...once again."
Great read.
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It's always a delight to read your poems, Diane and this one is no exception.
The poem opens with "A New Year beckons: "
The poet reminisces the past wrought with betrayal and failed expectations. The avalanche of the distressing past is too overwhelming even with the advent of the New Year. However, she is determined to move on for
"Only a fool would stay
Manacled to the past"
Yes what wisdom. The poem ends with a resolution not to repeat the mistakes of the past, to be "a fool...once again."
Great read.
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
Comment from JeffreyStone
But it always does for the unabashed optimist. Wonderfully done. Your words and phrasing are so poignant and descriptive. I really like this work. JeffreyStone
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But it always does for the unabashed optimist. Wonderfully done. Your words and phrasing are so poignant and descriptive. I really like this work. JeffreyStone
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
Comment from paulamack
You have captured beyond measure the true meaning of letting go of the past and how the past is simply made up of a conglomeration of tangibles (or intangibles in matters of the heart) that cannot be changed. It is eerily ironic that I chose this poem to review, my first of this New Year without knowing its topic. Perhaps it is an omen for me that "Words not yet spoken ... Paths not yet taken ... Hopes not yet dreamed" are the reason I embraced the New Year and let go of an intangible - something I could not change nor force to happen before its time and took someone's advice to just "let it happen." I am in awe that you so eloquently put into this free verse such a personal part of me, and I am sure a personal part of many others who read this and hopefully will let go of the past and not become fools in the future. Thank you - in more ways than you know.
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You have captured beyond measure the true meaning of letting go of the past and how the past is simply made up of a conglomeration of tangibles (or intangibles in matters of the heart) that cannot be changed. It is eerily ironic that I chose this poem to review, my first of this New Year without knowing its topic. Perhaps it is an omen for me that "Words not yet spoken ... Paths not yet taken ... Hopes not yet dreamed" are the reason I embraced the New Year and let go of an intangible - something I could not change nor force to happen before its time and took someone's advice to just "let it happen." I am in awe that you so eloquently put into this free verse such a personal part of me, and I am sure a personal part of many others who read this and hopefully will let go of the past and not become fools in the future. Thank you - in more ways than you know.
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008
Comment from SnowBound
Very nicely done. I like the progression you take us through in your poem. Well written free verse. I hope your New Year is wonderful also!
Suz
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Very nicely done. I like the progression you take us through in your poem. Well written free verse. I hope your New Year is wonderful also!
Suz
Comment Written 08-Jan-2008