January Sonnet

New Year’s Sonnet

This is the opening/set up poem for my calendar. It describes the state of the mankind as they tend to miss the things they think are important by looking for them too hard. The narrator of this poem urges the reader to stop looking and welcome in the New Year and to live in the moment.

This poem is written in the style of a Shakespearean sonnet, meaning that it is written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 

The only poetic devices used in this poem are personification, and repetition.

The time has come to usher in the year

And soon, new mem’ries surely will be made.

Yet as we find new pleasures and new fear,

Those of years past will slowly start to fade.

Though now you’re lost, no clue of where you’ll be

When this year fin’lly finds its distant close,

 But everyday you’ll slowly start to see

More of the life that you’ll have found and chose.

So live, so live and treasure every day,

Search not for greater meaning, nor ask why,

For these are things you’ll find along the way

Unless you look, for then they’ll pass you by.

And as this new year’s heart begins to pound,

We welcome in The Year of Lost and Found.

-          Rachel Harrison