New Year Poem by Angela Lansbury

New Year Wishes Poem

 by Angela Lansbury 

I hope each New Year brings to you 

The season's days of joy and ease 

Like happy birds which sing and dance 

And bounce each dawn and break the trees 

 Please, every year when you look back 

List all you've done as each year ends

Smile and recall laughter and fun 

And family and your ex friends. 

Ignore small things missed or done wrong

The childlike adults who rowed and swore

Let's hope next year's a bit better

And naughty friends learned, don't keep doing more.

 Copyright Angela Lansbury 2016

 I woke early and heard a bird singing. My neighbour Alice says it's probably a starling. 

*** Above is my first draft.

 I might change the I thought of changing the word 'your' in the last line to 'our'. 

Let's compare it to the hymn All Things Bright And Beautiful. That has a new image in each line. So let's put more images in my poem. I've seen several people composing their own poems for Christmas cards or emails. 

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 I must try a parody of Old Lang Syne. 

 Every year Grapedeal.com sends out a Christmas song parody using words relating to wine or wine bottles. 

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Parody of Twelve Days of Christmas by Angela Lansbury

Affordable, Modern Twelve days of Christmas Parody by Angela Lansbury On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me 12 Christmas crackers Eleven pictures showing Ten mince pies heating Nine fruits a stewing Eight cups of coffee Seven stollen slices Six little pancakes Five doughnut rings Four Christmas puds Three French wines Two hard boiled eggs Toast and honey for tea with me. Copyright Angela Lansbury December 22nd 2016 Author's note: My draft version included: Ten squirrels leaping Nine couples dancing Six big hard boiled eggs Five pretty rings Four singing birds I just thought For an audience which is not English, change it to Four steaming puds (or puddings) Alternative Lines 6 Six eggs for omelettes or six little crumpets 3 I had three French songs instead of French hens 2 Two ringing bells I changed to two honey jars Last ! tried to end with the last line reading: a turkey and a plum tree and plums for tea I tried a Christmas tree a cup of tea some Yorkshire tea Xmas Cake And a Christmas cake just for me And Christmas cake for our tea And Christmas cake to share with me Xmas Trees Or Secular Trees For Atheists? And a Christmas tree? And a tall spruce tree (More secular - but since Christmas in the title?) How about an atheist's Christmas? On the twelfth Day of December my lover/husband/ best friend/ an atheist (the rhyme to fit the music and copy the original wording in a familiar way has to stay as 'my' plus two syllables The original Twelve Days of Christmas carol On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me A pink synthetic tree. Happy Christmas to everyone Angela Lansbury PS I typed this out as a poem with line breaks. However, the website has deleted the line breaks. I shall have to devise a way of writing the poem in Word or Pages, photographing the page on a mobile phone, copying it into photos on a laptop and loading it up into my blog as a PDF picture. What a palaver! Ah - I see what happened. I can click on Compose or HTML above. I must have clocked on HTML. I now have to learn the HTML code to insert line breaks. Meanwhile ... Every year Grapedeal.com sends out a Christmas song parody using words relating to wine or wine bottles. See grapdedeal.com See my other posts on travel. Follow me on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram. See me performing poetry on YouTube. See my comic poetry books on Lulu.com Other books on Amazon. Please share my posts. Thank you.