New Beginnings
Until we take that final breath,
There always is a chance,
To right a wrong we might have done,
To thrill to a romance.
It’s not too late to travel,
To a place seen in our dreams,
With exotic food and palaces,
Where the sun on marble gleams.
As long as we awaken,
We can make the most each day,
Of every golden opportunity,
That the Creator sends our way.
A change needn’t be dramatic,
It can simply be to smile,
It helps make life a little brighter,
And the journey more worthwhile.
Each day holds new beginnings,
Just waiting, if we choose,
Embrace life to its fullest,
For you’ve nothing at all to lose!
Carmen Henesy
Copyright © 2010 Carmen Henesy. All Rights Reserved
Carmen I love your poems they always feel as though I could sing them, if I knew how to sing.
ReplyDeleteLove Renee xoxo
Carmen, this is one of my favorite places to come and read poems.....they are all so wonderful and teach lovely lessons.....:-) Hugs
ReplyDelete"Each day holds new beginnings, Just waiting, if we choose..." This is such an uplifting thought, thank you. It is wonderful that we start each new day with the chance to do better, be happier, live more fully and love more freely, than the day before. Thanks for a lovely poem.
ReplyDeletei didn't knew you write too.....everytime i'm here....there is smthing new to learn....
ReplyDeletei'm really bad with poems .....
anyways....Wishes for the new yaer.....\,,/
simply a wonderful poem...lovely crafted!!
ReplyDeleteits came round so fast again hasnt it! heres to a fab 2010 :)
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Beautiful poem for the New Year, Carmen!
ReplyDeleteIt sheds hope, inspiring thoughts, and encouraging.
I love your poems they are honest and relateable.
ReplyDeleteHow very apt and true. I don't regret anything I have done in this life, only the things I didn't do. Thank you for sharing, you are very talented.
ReplyDeleteKat (also RN, staff nurse in a small hospital)nice to meet you.
i so enjoy my visits here. very inspirational poem here.
ReplyDeleteYeah! I'll drink to this.
ReplyDeleteThank yoy and a toast to this... I so easily give up...
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful poem...this is wonderful...thanks so much for following my blog and making such sweet comments!!! Looking forward to seeing more of your lovely blog.
ReplyDeleteI know a lady from our area who is a blood spatter expert formerly of Mempphis...very well known...you may know her, her first name is Paulette.
Your poem dances on the screen with joy and exuberance, with encouragement and simple pleasures. Happy new year, Carmen.
ReplyDeleteFantastic - that gives me courage.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Carmensita!! I wonder what wonderful places you will travel to, what delicious foods you will taste and what new words you will weave together to create tomorrow's poetry?
ReplyDeleteCarmen, exactly! It's about living each moment to the fullest.
ReplyDeleteRenee - there's no one I'd rather have sing my
ReplyDeletepoems than you so go right ahead!!!
Bernie - not all of my poems teach lovely
lessons! Some of them are quite ridiculous!
a human kind of human - yes, we do get a chance
with each new day but...I have to admit,
when I lost my job, I was pretty glum for a
long while and couldn't see any brightness
ahead! Getting into the blogging world
helped. I'm not making money but it's
given me wonderful new friends.
hitesh rawat - I've been writing poems for
almost fifty years now. I don't think
Robert Frost or Elizabeth Barrett Browning
have any competition, though.
Priyanka Bhowmick - I am honored to have you
visiting my page and reading my poetry, from
one of the countries I love most!
Tina - I enjoy your Travel Shack - great info.
Icy BC - you are always encouraging me. I am
so glad you liked this poem.
Liss - this poem, I think, was one with which
most of us could identify.
Kat_RN - wow, do you have a most beautiful
home. Looks like something out of "Gone
With the Wind." Nice to have a fellow
RN reading my blog! I wish I was still
working..but just lost my job, of 21 years
( forensics ) in San Francisco's massive
budget cuts.
Kamana - please come back often...the internet
is much quicker than flying!
lakeviewer - you are such a great friend,
ReplyDeletestopping by so often!
Dulce - mas dulce que azucar - how nice to see
your comments always.
Thoughtfully blended hearts - are you from
Memphis? One of my most beloved nurse
colleagues, Patricia Speck, used to be in
charge of the sexual assault program there,
finished up her PhD, teaches at UT, and does
private consulting. She would probably know
your blood spatter expert.
Enchanted Oak - I am so happy you visit. It
always delights me.
Welchcakes Limoncello - seeing your name always
makes me think of my youngest son returning
from a visit to Italy, armed with four
different bottles of limoncello! We had a
wonderful "tasting" - the best was a home
made bottle from the bed and breakfast
where he stayed in Cinque de Terre.
Shaista - how wonderful to see you in this new
year. How are you doing, dearest one? I
send you a big embrace. No travel plans
yet - so busy counting pennies and hoping
to find some sort of job so I can travel.
Poetic Shutterbug - well, some of those moments
I live MUST be with you...we need to do a
series of photos this year like that one I
did at Cafe Divine - do you recall?
This made me smile. :) Thank you for that. :) And cheers to new beginnings for you, Carmen! For us all! :) The new dawn is upon us! :)
ReplyDeletebeautiful thoughts there to begin the new year!!
ReplyDeletecheers!
Hi Carmen,
ReplyDeleteBeautifully put! Lovely poem. You see, there is something to be said for blessings in deguise...
bessye
Hi Carmen! I like new beginnings. Sometimes things don't turn out right our simply gets tougher but in the end there's a new beginning. A better one.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful poem
ReplyDeletewith those pics of roses
lovely
It's never too late. Gorgeous roses in your header pic!
ReplyDeleteC - we are now well into our first week of
ReplyDeletenew beginnings - hope they continue to be
good for us!
magiceye - I wish you the best of new beginnings
as the year nears the end of its first week
in beautiful India. I look forward to so
many more of your spectacular photographs!
bessye - so glad you liked my "New Beginnings"
poem. Let's hope we recognize our blessings
in disguise!
Ayie - I think that's what keeps us going
sometime - the thought that there is another
chance, something better out there.
sm - aren't those roses something. SchererArts
offered them for free to be used and I was
quick to take advantage of that!
willow - you are so right..never late for new
beginnings. Roses are from Scherer Arts for
free. She has the most lovely pictures of
angels and roses.