New Year's Poem

Wishes For A New Year

I never wish for fame and fortune at the start of each New Year. Only health, family, and happiness are the things that I hold dear.

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Hi Rosie, I'm so sorry that you feel so sad and broken. Having been there myself, I know how hard it can be. Hang on in there, sweetheart. Things can only get better, believe me. God Bless.

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Happy New Year!

John P. Read © more by John P. Read

Published by Family Friend Poems December 2018 with permission of the Author.

Brush away old heartaches.
Learn from our mistakes.
Another year is finally over.
A new dawn awakes.

Let the old year out.
Welcome the new one in.
Bury the bad things of the past
As a new year now begins.

Make your New Year wishes
As simple as you can.
Pray for peace and love,
Not for wealth or fame.

Pray for health and happiness.
Pray for your fellow man.
Pray for all the ones you love.
Pray for those who've lost their way.

As the midnight hour chimes,
We leave the old and embrace the new.
I wish the things you wish for yourself,
And may God’s love stay with you.

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ABOUT THE POET:

John Peter Read was born in the East End of London in 1948. He was brought up by his Nan and mother, as his father left home when he was 5 years old. At the age of 15, John left school with just a basic education. While in school, he wrote little rhymes just for fun. A couple of his religious poems were published by the Christian church in the...

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I've just been reading more of your poems. This one, like many of your other poems, relates to how I feel. I, like you, get great comfort from other poets on Family Friends. Writing about my feelings during my husband's terminal illness and subsequent death, was a great help to me, as I understand it was for you too. Very best wishes, Ann.

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I lost my wife Ann in 2010, it was a few months after her passing I came across Family friends Poems, I just shared my feelings with others and found it a great help, I've no poet but I've learnt as I've gone along.
Thank you Ann for your heartwarming comment God bless you.

  • Roxie Deleon by Roxie Deleon
  • 5 years ago

This is beautiful. It sounds so easy to do, but it's not easy. I'm so broken, so sad.

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Hi Rosie, I'm so sorry that you feel so sad and broken. Having been there myself, I know how hard it can be. Hang on in there, sweetheart. Things can only get better, believe me. God Bless.

  • Subhash Bansal by Subhash Bansal
  • 5 years ago

Very relevant and timely poem, explaining the value of simplicity in rhyme. I liked the poem very much and shared it with many of my friends.

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Hi Subhash. I'm glad you liked my New Year poem. Hope your friends enjoyed it as well. Won't be long now before another new year is here. How time flies!

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