The windows need calking. The sidewalk needs shoveling. Submit a poem for analysis. A New Day is Dawning by Denise Fletcher Shadows of yesterday reflect echoes of memories, sadly envisioning scenes of friendships long past remembered. Fellows crying in the streets, children smiling at the animals trapped behind bars of solid iron and lying on concrete sheets amid dry grass and water.
Today is a new day, unkindness is forgiven.
Housewives clad in veils of rags learning to master the art of furiously rubbing the floor beneath them. Young girls trained in mixing sauces and spices with tender red meats to form exotic concoctions for hungry appetites. Men dressed in suits and elongated ribbons flowing down their necklines, return from the church festivities to celebrate a new year's dawning of renewed love and treasured affections. Happily they greet the bright, warm faces with embraces and sweet lips of caressing. Freedom is felt in the hearts of close relations and uplifting of spirits is given to dress the beautiful day with new life.