Tonight Poem by Magdalena Biela

Tonight



Tonight I'll drink, I'll drink tonight
to the New Year, to the new "might",
to those who crushed my dreams and flight,
to all my hopes that suffered blight.

I raise the glass to the New Year,
for the new harvesting I cheer,
for what I've seen and for the seer,
for everything that I hold dear.

I'll drink to dead and to alive,
to those who smile and those who strive,
to those who waste life to contrive,
to those who every day survive.

I'll drink to clouds and to the light,
to all the stars in human plight,
all shining silent, shining bright,
so far away from our sight.

Tonight I'll drink a poisonous drink,
I'll give myself the time to think
before I die, perhaps a blink.
I'll give my pen a glass of ink.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: new year
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 16 January 2015

love the first four stanzas of this poem which present the wisest, most holistic and far-reaching toast I have witnessed. The familiar qualities of a toast are present - the future orientation, the optimistic tone, the delight in companionship, the hope for universal benefit - but you also go beyond this conventional framework. This is not limited to one New Year but celebrates newness itself as a force energizing our lives. It's not even limited to people living since you also embrace the dead in your words. And most impressively you adopt a cosmic perspective in stanza four that I found exciting and liberating. All this makes the suicidal fantasy (It is fantasy, right?) all the more puzzling. And suicide itself is treated almost like a joke. Why? This toast makes me want to live a fuller, more generous life, it fills me with new vigor... How can this mood be a prelude to The End? Or am I missing something?

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Fabrizio Frosini 13 January 2015

'I'll give my pen a glass of ink' il verso finale ha in sé, insieme, l'immaginifico della poesia e la sorprendente arguzia della parola.. Thank you for sharing

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