Always

fresh starts

each second a

fresh furrow

in the pasture

land of

progress

each minute

a mountain

climbed

each hour

a complex

history

each day

a bead

on the

soul's

rosary

slipping

through

fingers

worn

thin

with

devotion.

                 -- by Cynthia Kiteley Lee   Copyright 2007 -  All Rights Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

Time's horn of plenty spills

Out to us her dialectic

Changing forms;

No one can say

When love will take root,

Run wildfire up the heart's trellis.  We

Harbor such diversity

That turning now we find

The future in our arms,

A golden cataract that comes

Out of the cornucopia of dream.

  --  Barbara Howes  excerpt from her poem "Indian Summer" p. 35 I Hear My Sisters Saying (anthology) 

 

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

    Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

                                               

                                                                                        - by Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

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