Greeting the New Year in Poetry
Let's start with an epitome:Kobyashi Issa Then we have the inimitably cheerful Thomas Hardy and, of course, what would a change of year be without For those making resolutions we have Rainer Maria Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo My own haiku: The new year comes in the old goes out; nothing stops the baby's crying. (I claim it for my own--but I will readily say that it is so engrained in memory that I may have stolen it from some great writer of haiku and forgotten. If anyone reads this and recognizes the real author (if, indeed, I am not he), please let me know.) Then we have Robert Herrick sending And we can depart the subject where we entered--with Issa's quiet wisdom
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Steven,
ReplyDeleteNice collection. I don't recognize the haiku, but Issa has a spring haiku about nothing changing.
Spring begins again,
Upon folly,
Folly returns.
-- Issa --