HAPPY NEW YEAR!
My poems are but a dedication to everything around me. This time they are a tribute to the New Year that has recently arrived. The first is in praise of the ‘fickle but faithful one’ that comes each year without fail. The following two verses (in Haiku form) are in conjunction with the resolution that it brings along with it.
Haiku is a beautiful form of structured verse. Perhaps the Japanese way of saying that brevity can also be the soul of poetry. The essence of the verse is captured in three simple lines in a total of seventeen syllables- five, seven, five. This New Year, I have managed to convey my resolutions through this brief form of verse. Both the Haikus are directed towards my hobby (writing) and my total lack of confidence in it (maybe because of the multiple rejections I keep receiving from the publishers). But this year I am determined to present myself with a fresh new assertiveness. For no matter what people say, feel or think about my writing, I resolve to be confident and to be patient. And I resolve NEVER, ever to put a stop to the flow of my ideas.
THE FICKLE FAITHFUL
She is the epitome of
fickle love
She is the essence of
change
She is the epithet of novel
times
She is the spirit of range
Happy and pristine she
waltzes each year
At twelve, not a second too
late
On the stroke of night, she
staunchly arrives
But with always a brand new
date!
1st Jan2004
My New Year Resolutions………………..
CONFIDENCE
My thoughts
will make waves
Wherever the tide takes me
Adrift or ashore.
PATIENCE
My
writings, I’ll freeze
Wait with
fortitude for Time
To gently thaw them.
31stDec 2003.
May this Year bring Health
and Cheer to all!
Nargis Natarajan.