New Year

New Year

(first day in Advent)

Lord, I love you

But sometimes

You make things so hard

I’m not saying life can’t have

Its sharpness

We all get cut from time to tome

There are always to stanch the bleeding

But

It hurts each time

And some hurts, well, keep on hurting

Damaged nerves

Wounded organs

Burdens in the blood

I guess I’m complaining

What could I ask for?

Most anodynes aren’t real

And aren’t cheap

And I am not a boy in a cave

Who found a magic lamp

And you are not a genie

Some help, please—

Are you listening?

I am

You had me at I love you

C L Couch

note

in case you’re counting, which is a point for seasons, Advent starts Sunday 2 December; for the Christian church, Advent starts the new year

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New Year

New Year

The rooster

Takes a turn

(the monkey

Is my year)

Oriental means eastern

But in China it is meridian

The center

For people and the life

We take these years

In twelve,

Which is significant for

Occidentals, too

Maybe we should learn to count

Together, dismiss compass

Names

Respecting the zenith

Of each degree

Each one

C L Couch

Happy Gregorian new year. Happy lunar new year.

Still writing from a place of pain that tends to overwhelm. I’ll be rethinking that relationship between art and suffering, sometime.

Meanwhile I’m trying.

January 22, 2017 0

New Year’s Turn, a diamante

a diamante, inspired by What the Woman Wrote, https://whatthewomanwrote.wordpress.com/

New Year’s Turn

Yes?
We’ll drop
down gradually
a diamond-looking ball
in each shiny place around the world, where
it’s suitable to celebrate New Year’s Eve as style—and yet
in three-hundred sixty-four (or five) more days,
we’ll do it again in lights
for the new time:
one year
wiser

December 30, 2015 3