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Knowing at Sunset (New Year’s Card, 2026)

his poem reflects on life as it is seen at sunset—
not as an ending, but as a moment when past light, lingering warmth,
and the promise of a new dawn quietly coexist.


Knowing at sunset

the gradations of a life.

Passion has not yet cooled;

the days bathed in sunlight now lie distant.

Life glows in the lingering afterlight.


Melting into sunset

the strange encounters a life bestows.

Benevolence remains precious still;

with the sun at ones back, shadows are cast.

Life resounds in the hues of evening.


Cherishing the beauty of sunset

the last story of a life.

Embers have not yet burned out;

in the stillness that reaches culmination,

one is suffused by a new sun.