“The Nativity” by Geri Melchers
I will be offline for the next dozen days or so, in order to be with family in Texas.
Wishing all of you – my dear followers, readers, fellow bloggers, and friends – all the blessings and bliss of the season. May you and yours enjoy the very best of health, happiness and prosperity in the upcoming New Year.
Affectionately,
Paul
December 19, 2016
“New Year’s Eve 2015” by Phil Strang
the ball came down
in New York town
and in that moment
something did stop
mass exultations
of jubilant noise
arose in a rain of
small multi-hued
cut paper strips
scraps of time
bits of life with
each fluttering
piece bearing
imprint of words
a recounting of
all that occurred
round the world
in one infinitesimal
fraction of one
single second
belonged to the
old year now gone
confetti come
carrying messages
purposeful
swirled in descent
from a lesser god’s
hand sent upon
the cold city in
clock-light of midnight
each tiny torn
slip a memento
of everything now
done and dead
fleet reminders
flat warnings
so served as to
never repeat the
worst bits of men’s
yester-deeds
who among
dancing drunk
revelers might
deign to bother
to pick up and
read even one
to take note
to acknowledge
that every
tomorrow in
every new year
wants the same
namely something
quite different
some something
that’s nobler
in every way
better by far
than before
the ball came down
in New York town
and in that moment
something did start
From my book Onionskin
“Clockworks” by Jessica Rice
almost time to rewind
add new tocks to my clock
turn the key in my navel
ratchet my workings
but each turn gives hint
my mainspring
escapement
and balance wheel
will not endure
many more
tightly wound
new mechanical years
aging analog gears
obsolete
in the reign of electrons
familiar old internal ticks
sound increasingly lonely
among smooth
atomical ambient
quantums of silence
my human machine
bears no warrants
beyond its organic
quaint custom of
lifetime guarantee
I used to love time
at a time
when I thought
time was endless
From my book Onionskin
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
I wish for all my WordPress friends, followers and readers the very best of health, happiness and prosperity in the New Year.
Here's an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 83,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.
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each tomorrow
opens another new year
celebrate often
Writer Lynne Sargent
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Sometimes everything has to be enscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. Sometimes it takes a great sky to find that small, bright, and indescribable wedge of freedom in your own heart. David Whyte
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