Short Chinese New Year Poems

Red envelope
Bursting with luck
Dragons dancing in the street...

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The Lunar Cycle

Holiday of fifteen days

Red lanterns shed light...

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i’ve heard of the year of the rooster but 2025—is the year of the kookoo
...

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CHINESE NEW YEAR 2020 
{year of the virus}
{year of the virus}   
{year of the virus}...

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red banners swirl

dragon's flame huffs upward

merging yin yang




 Contest :Chinese New Year...

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Spring festival
Auspicious colours
Painting town red


Reunion dinner
Grand celebration
Hearts aligned


Homeward bound
To gather again
Good times come around


Joy sings
Spring chorus;
Familiar red packets


Laughing faces
Jolly feasting:
Memory subscribes...

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The “fu” character
Calligraphed on red papers
Ushering in the Chinese New Year
With luck and blessings
Sometimes words are pasted upside down
Fortelling luck and fortunes
Coming your way soon
Besides prayers 
People pursue hopes and dreams
In their own ways...

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an incessant bore
he droned on and on and on …
where’s my gaffer tape!

Based on experience at our meal out last night – he dominated the conversation at our end of the table and then didn’t stop twittering on even during the talk on the Chinese New Year. 

01/26/18...

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Chinese New Year
Spring hurls fine cheer


Custom works best
To forge fine fest


Red packet gifts
Watch cash uplift


Glimpses of smiles
As blessings style


Fond festive cheer
Draws each soul near


Fresh touch of spring
As joy now sings




Leon Enriquez
19 February 2018
Singapore...

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Colorful ribbons 
follow the woman’s movements. 
I can almost see
floating rainbows.

Pale beauties unfurl 
ivory hued fans.
I imagine
swan wings fluttering.


I chose both the ribbon dance and the fan dance for the Chinese New Year & Celebrations - Poetry Contest of Debbie Guzzi...

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Chinese New Year
Ushering in a brand new year
In the name of equality and democracy
Chinese worldwide are celebrating
globally
We invite you to join the happiness and the prosperity ahead
We pray for the world to become 
peaceful and prosperous
Hopefully
We don't live alone
And we don't celebrate alone
And we don't pray alone...

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fields of bold daffodil bells
ring in the Chinese New Year
wealth and prosperity spread
from wild, yellow blooms

bright bells of distinction sway 
a sweet fragrance on the breeze
tell of flowers bringing gold
a gift to behold


By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders
HM in Brian Strand's 8 max/ any form, any theme contest...

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banners rise in street
each painted silk masterpiece
a celebration
of rich colors bleeding life
ancient spirits soar tonight 

gentle goat once gray
brushed bold in crimson through time
draws fresh eyes and breath 
a thousand years preserved
to graze upon ancient hill 


for Debbie's Chinese New Year Contest, 1/24/15
inspired by Chinese silk painting...

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Holy infectious diseases, Batman
   What is it Robin, you annoying gnat 
The Batmobile's coughing and wheezing
    It needs an oil change, unmechanical brat...

                     LATER
 
Holy volcanic ash, Batman.  Now it's belching smoke  
   Maybe it's a dragon-car.  Ever think of that?  
Correctimundo, Boss! Happy Chinese New Year!
   Same to you, sidekick.  Happy 'Year of the Rat!'...

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Every beginning of the Chinese lunar calendar 
We ashering in Chinese New Year
Which carries a special meaning nowadays
Frankly to say
Just for us 
To relax
After a long session of strenuous work
For a complete rehabilitation,
To drop in
After a long absence of contacts
For a hearty reunion once a year
To plan
After a long painful struggle
For prosperity and happiness
To pray
After a long disappointment
For a better tomorrow...

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All around the world in every nation,
it is the start of a fifteen day celebration.
There are red envelopes and gifts exchanged.
Numerous traditional events have been arranged.
Reunion dinners are held, and firecrackers are ablaze.
Plenty of activities take the stage during nights and days.
Many are conducted to chase evil spirits away.
The lantern festival is held on the last day.
We welcome this new year of the dragon.
Let all of those great festivities begin.
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The candle dance is fascinating with  lighted candles on dishes
held in hands with bodies moving and curving to the musical wishes
Silat is another dance with martial art movements to the beat
of drums and gongs causing the dancer to feel the heat
Then the dance Datun Julud is telling a story as you elegantly glide
The most famous dance of all which is renowned worldwide
is the Lion Dance danced at the time of the Chinese New Year 
bringing good fortune and resistance to evil is perfectly clear...

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