8 1/2" X 11"
Done for a prompt in a Facebook Group:
Goodbye 2012
Pencil sketched, retraced in Sharpie PEN and then colored with Caran D'Ache and Staedtler Pencil Crayons. Journaling in Sharpie.
Poem from http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19332
We read this (and a few others) with the boys on New Years Eve.
The Old Year
by John Clare
The Old Year's gone away
To nothingness and night:
We cannot find him all the day
Nor hear him in the night:
He left no footstep, mark or place
In either shade or sun:
The last year he'd a neighbour's face,
In this he's known by none.
All nothing everywhere:
Mists we on mornings see
Have more of substance when they're here
And more of form than he.
He was a friend by every fire,
In every cot and hall--
A guest to every heart's desire,
And now he's nought at all.
Old papers thrown away,
Old garments cast aside,
The talk of yesterday,
Are things identified;
But time once torn away
No voices can recall:
The eve of New Year's Day
Left the Old Year lost to all.
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