THE SONG YOU WERE MEANT TO SING

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Roll back those lowering, grey 2017 clouds,

my friends,

and make a joyful noise to welcome

the new year in.

Sweep out the old cobwebby, difficult, 

grumbling, astonished,

outraged, disbelieving months,

and set your home

and your heart

 to gladness.

It's a brand new year.

What is your brightest dream

for this new chapter

of your life?

Write it down, attach a photo.

Stick it on your fridge.

Then set about making it 

come true,

as only you can do.

Today, I witnessed 

a strange-looking crow

make a warble I have never heard

from a bird.

I wondered what new kind of crow

he was trying to be,

what song he was trying out,

and what its message might be.

Perhaps to stop repeating 

the old, familiar, 

dusty, droning songs

and try out one 

so new and unthinkable 

that it gives you massive fear 

and goose bumps.

Then you will know 

that is exactly the song

you are meant to sing.

Plunge in!

2018 is almost here.

There will be a New Moon.

They say we can set our goals 

for the year 

on this moon.

I shall be sure to look at it

up there in the quiet winter sky.

I shall picture waves 

advancing and retreating 

in response to its lunar call,

and set my intention:

Peace, in my heart,

in my quiet rooms,

in my words,

in my relationships,

in my world.

Sharing this wish for the new year with the Poetry Pantry at Poets United, where we are seeing the new year in with poetry!