the year ahead it opens filled
with miles of possibility
– the unhitched hiker
i
It is the cleanest, cleanest slate
a birthing from the lifeless past
buried here beneath the snow
just like the 'man of sun' withdrew
from lion hide a honeyed hive.1
And for such reason we rejoice
with fiery liquor in our bowels
and starburst skies to ape the night
that brings the dawn of each New Year
ii
Chronos, quicksilvered, runs its course,
unbounded by a calendar
which makes our yearly revelry
mere capering Tomfoolery
a danse macabre for bygone days
like treading grapes gone sour with age.
You say this sounds like bitter cups
distilled from bloom of elapsed prime
-I'm sipping new in micro time!
- meaning of Samson’s name – see also the Samson riddle whereby he killed a lion with his bare hands and later found a swarm of bees and honey in its carcass. (Judges 14:14).
- Chronos – embodiment of time in Greek mythology
- Tomfoolery – playful foolish behaviour -from 14th century Jester Tom Fole
- see danse macabre
For my MTB prompt “New & Old in a Palinode” we are writing a poem of 2 verses that dialogue and retract/contradict each other, The New Year theme theme is inspired by a given choice of Epigraph, or one from our own poetry as in this case two lines of mine from an earlier poem.
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