Ode to a New Year

Happy and blessed New Year...

Ode to a New Year        

By Sami Khalil

An English Sonnet...

Further away the sun ambled slowly

As its lights shimmered upon rising waves

Go rushing is a sad world, so lowly

Holding the skies in check where New Year braves.

 

Some grow wearies from darker sense of things

While others in dreamless states do feel hope

Dangling on the edge what hostile man brings

Febrile instincts where one can grow and cope.

 

Hear these wise words which may preclude drifting

Circumspect that wars are oddly dreadful

Cast aside ghosts bidding on us passing

Eroding sacred belongings, droll-eyed, fretful.

 

Ode to new vantage points, real page-turners

Softly glow passions of astute learners.

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

The Doomsday Clock is one minute to midnight. Hope is a hard thing to hold when every act of mankind makes the path of truth and light more slippery and unstable. But I do hope. I hope for a wonderful year for us all. And I hope yours is the best.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! I love how you use wisdom to highlight man's many doings , past and present; many great things some did, many evil, destructive others did.
I hope man can see the light eventually as some of us do. Thank you so much for sharing your wishes and lending humanity your utmost support. May you and your be blessed as always in His loving mercy.
Happy New Year sir Fabian!