Wednesday, 29 December 2021

A Search for Meaning

Between two ’feasts’* we take a pause

Perhaps relax, go out of doors

See misty clouds fleck winter sky

And, just maybe, wonder why

 

Gun crime, domestic rows, despair

Have dogged so many this last year

Not to mention freedoms lost:

2021* is tinged with frost …

 

We’ve worked from home, missed seeing friends

Have failed, alas, to tie up ends …

And all while timid sun hangs low

Our mood reflected in its glow…

 

Time to reflect - the choice is vast -

On this fake jollity just past:

Along the way, we’ve lost the plot

Child-in-a-manger quite forgot …


(c) Poet in the woods 2021


* Between Christmas and New Year

** so, in 2022 what has changed?



 

 

 

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