And so the firecrackers and the works
Will once again be lit to celebrate,
Amidst the popping of the champagne corks,
A new year’s birth and passing of the late
Old year, with thanks for all the good it gave.
The crackling fires, for one brief moment,
Upon the newborn sky they will engrave
A lightning lullaby and a dry lament
For broken resolutions and the scars
Of promises and pledges never kept
As bright-light displays burst and died like stars
While cinders, in the dark, quietly wept.
And so the extrovert night-sky explodes
While somewhere, silently, a soul implodes.
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
