Friday Poetry Corner - New Years Day

[BrowneIssue]

A cheerful way
. To start a thread.
Some dingy dirge
. About the dead.

This is New Year!
. Let's have some fun!
Oh - we're in General.
. I'll get my gun.

[Bumfluff]

I still feel ill so took a pill,
My nose is runny and Im feeling funny,
I want to go home and back to bed and have some b88bs rubbed around my head.

lalalalalala

[AlfredJPruffock]

Dedicated to our absent friends


A few days may - a few years must -
Repose us in the silent dust.

This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain
To run the twelvemonth's length again:
I see, the old bald-pated fellow,

With ardent eyes, complexion sallow,
Adjust the unimpair'd machine
To wheel the equal, dull routine.


First, what did yesternight deliver?
"Another year has gone for ever."

And what is this day's strong suggestion?
"The passing moment's all we rest on!

Rest on - for what? what do we here?
Or why regard the passing year?

Will Time, amus'd with proverb'd lore,
Add to our date one minute more?

A few days may - a few years must -
Repose us in the silent dust.

Then is it wise to damp our bliss?
Yes - all such reasonings are amiss!
The voice of Nature loudly cries,

And many a message from the skies,
That something in us never dies:

That on his frail, uncertain state,
Hang matters of eternal weight:

That future life in worlds unknown
Must take its hue from this alone;

Whether as heavenly glory bright,
Or dark as Misery's woeful night.

Robert BURNS The Eternal Poet