Harry Seymour

New Year’s Resolution

Harry Seymour
[Print options: w comments, w/o]
[Related stories side scroll]
MLA
Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Newspaper, Day Month Year, URL.

My New Year’s resolutions/Are soon forgotten delusions/About who I could be.

My New Year’s resolutions

Are soon forgotten delusions

About who I could be

Indeed, at times

I might like to be a tree

Within a chorus

Of dropping leaves

In unison and harmony

To a forest’s drumbeat

And season’s cadence

Of songs never complete

Simply rhythms to repeat

As leaves restore each spring

A form of rehearsal

Year after year

Not unlike resolutions

In search

Of the illusive tree of life

Not found in any tree

But in the forest’s melody

In me.

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 12/31/2020 - 16:05

Permalink

Bob DiCarlo Tisbury

Happy New Year Harry. As usual your art work is as beautiful as your poetry. Nothing short of excellent.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/01/2021 - 14:23

Permalink

Marcie Williams Michigan

To borrow a metaphor from Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy...your art and poetry constitute a rhyming of hope and insight, of yearning and resolution. Bravo, Harry!
Happy New Year to you and Char

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/01/2021 - 15:01

Permalink

Ronald T. Gault Sarasota, Fl.

HS, You are an unfinished melody in search of a note. But it is a beautiful sound. Hearing you we all feel better.
RonG

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/01/2021 - 16:23

Permalink

Sheila E. Oak Bluffs

I knew of your art work, but your poetry is just as good. Peacefulness in nature! Happy New year to you and your family.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/01/2021 - 16:39

Permalink

Mason P. Ashe Oak Bluffs

Happy New Year, Harry. Thank you for sharing your amazing art work and poem. I love them both. -MPA

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/01/2021 - 21:44

Permalink

Bettie Florida

Your words and you work bring A peaceful light into the turmoil of my thoughts. Thank you

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/01/2021 - 23:12

Permalink

Margo Los Angeles

Bravo!

Your poetry is as talented as your artistry!

Thank you for sharing.

Happy New Year to your and Charlena!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/03/2021 - 11:23

Permalink

Patricia Washington DC

Thank you for the wonderful imagery and inspiration! Looking forward to a positive melody in 2021!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/05/2021 - 11:49

Permalink

Sharon Fross

Thank you Harry for such beautiful images and calming and restorative sentiments - love to you and Charlena!

Add new comment

About text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.