NEW YEAR
We welcome the coming of other
new months that will kiss one another.
We welcome a year
whose torrents of fear
will injure both sister and brother.
 
RESOLUTION
The factions declare that the year
will teach an omnipotent sneer.
We quickly may fashion
an order whose passion
will swallow a basket of beer.

NEW YEAR
The coming year will offer dreams.
We happily may share a smile.
The moments have produced rich gleams.
The coming year will offer dreams.
Inveterate are all bright beams
that seemingly enhance true style.
The coming year will offer dreams;
we happily may share a smile.



WE SOON
We soon might share a moment and a drink
and offer a celebratory toast
that sometimes might recall the ways we'd think
some thoughts that offered hope a special boast.
The many years that now have passed we may
presume will hurt no friendship but may let
our former hopes be vivid forms that say
that dreams preserve a happy kind of debt.
Whatever drink you name is what I'll buy
and pray will help us pass a joyous hour
in which I'll be a civil man whose eye
shows no undue appearances of power.
That we again are strangers is no woe
that must demolish any hopeful glow.



Bruce Hamilton
bruce_h_93940@yahoo.com