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Sunday, January 25th, 2026
Winner: Weekly Poems Contest #26
by Theresa Shaw
The year arrives without ceremony, like a system registering input no error returned. Calendars insist on novelty, but time only shrugs and keeps its habits. Still, I audit the minor constants: that I have carried too long, that have reached equilibrium. Beginnings aren't doors, I think, they're edits, the sentences that survive after you delete what no longer validates.
Biography of the Poet
Theresa Shaw lives in Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, where she writes poetry and stories alongside her work in technology.
Her writings draw on love, memory, and the everyday moments that give life meaning.
She has always found words to be a place of refuge and connection, and likes to bring private reflections into the open,
offering them as spaces where others might also feel at home.
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Keywords: January, new year, beginnings, equilibrium
Previously Published in Weekly Poems:
"A Prelude to Christmas" by Joseph C. Ogbonna
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