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Entry: Happy! Happy! New Year - A61012612
Author: vivekanandJha - U14269162

Happy! Happy! New Year.



Happy! Happy! New Year
Enjoy without fret and fear
Drive yourself in top gear
Make even your foe dear
Hug your friends who are near.


This year shouldn’t have any peer
Colour of ecstasy is to smear
We should tolerate and bear:
If unwarranted things hear
Enjoy reading Shakespeare’s King Lear.


This day comes in year bare
Forget the life’s wear and tear
Don’t be lonely and despair
Enjoy with family and in pair.


Take part in picnic and fair
Jokes and bantering are to share
In the temple offer prayer.


It is the occasion rare
After digging the 365 layers
Wish to all for cure and care.


Not to kill decency and demeanour
But to kill sin and sinner
Not stand and stare at the river
But to be an adept diver
For the needy be depriver.


Wherever reach the ear
There is one and only flare
Happy! Happy! New Year.

Happy New Year to you, as well.

I didn't quite underestand why you advise us to read 'King Lear'. Was this meant ironically, or did you mean as a way of understanding how to bear trouble?

Your poem reminds me a bit of Tennyson's...

'Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells across the snow,
The year is going, let it go...'

Happy New Year to you too !

However, there are some lines in this that try too hard to reach a rhyme and lose sense along the way. The ones that don't work for me are:

'Colour of ecstasy is to smear' - I'm not sure what you mean here;

'Enjoy reading Shakespeare's King Lear'. As Dmitri has pointed out, this seems an odd choice of play;

'For the needy be depriver' sounds as if you mean to deprive people of what is rightfully theirs. 'For the needy be provider' would be better.

'There is one and only flare'. I'm not sure what you mean to say here.