Poems of 2026

 My New Year's resolution for 2026 is to read a poem a day. 

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i am running into a new year

and the old years blow back

like a wind

that i catch in my hair

like strong fingers like

all my old promises and

it will be hard to let go

of what i said to myself

about myself

when i was sixteen and

twentysix and thirtysix

even thirtysix but

i am running into a new year

and i beg what i love and

i leave to forgive me

—Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and A Memoir 1969-1980