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- Harry Seymour

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.

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13 Comments

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

  2. 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

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

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

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

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

  7. Bravo!

    Your poetry is as talented as your artistry!

    Thank you for sharing.

    Happy New Year to your and Charlena!

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

  9. Thank you Harry for such beautiful images and calming and restorative sentiments – love to you and Charlena!

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