New Year Day Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

The first day of January is new Year day
of Gregorian calendar
It's the day from which New Year begins
Calendar's year count incremented
This calendar used worldwide
We too follow the same
In school, college, office … everywhere
And forgot our own except Fiscal Year.

The New Year days in our different states
Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Puthandu, Rongali Bihu
Cheirouba, Poila Boishakh, Vishu
and many others …
They are now just regional festivals,
These days celebrated in our country
for having delicious food, new dresses
and observing a holiday.

The new year day is nothing
but a fixed point on the orbital path
of the world
Here the globe completes current round
and starts another one
Nothing is new in this process
A runner running non-stop
in the oval shaped track.