Poetry Picnic Week 20: Fairytales, My First Time, Hope, and New Year's Resolutions

Dear Fellow Poets:

Welcome to a new year at the Gooseberry Garden's Poetry Picnic!  It’s so thrilling to begin 2012 here at Jingle Poetry with the bright hope of new beginnings. As we ring in the New Year, we take time to reflect and to look forward as well.  

Today, we can begin with a fresh, clean slate.  That’s what our theme for this week is all about.  Do you believe in fairytale?  I do!  Have you thought of doing something new this year?  I have . . . going to an ashram in India!  Does that count for fairytale and something new?  What is your hope for the coming year?  I hope I can put in a little more time at the gym!  Ha-ha!  Have you made any resolutions?   I resolve to reflect outer peace by becoming even more peaceful on the inside.  Whew!  That’s a lot to think about.  Well, we’d better put our thinking caps on and consider at least one of these ideas.  1, 2, 3, let’s write!

I’ll see you at your page!

Yours truly,

Kay Salady

Eve’s New Year by David (1MereMortal)

New Year’s aftermath
From Eve’s celebration
Throwing her cares
To the winds traveling
The four corners
To be forgotten along with the
Sentiments consumed
Within the fifty-two weak
Potables counted down
To the last intoxicating shot
Before calling her father
To say goodbye one last
Time

A Look of Eagles by Donna Swanson

Those who walk on the edge of eternity

bear the look of eagles.
Gazing on the truths we have not yet
been forced to see.
Those who walk on the edge of eternity
are captured by a larger vision;
And if their attention seems out of focus
in our darkened mirrors,
it is only because the veil is lifting.

We are unmasked by them,

and our hearts are stripped of masquerade.

Our hands are hungry with the need

to hold and touch,

even as they withdraw, into silent determination.

The edge of eternity must be a lonely place

for who can know the battles fought,

the victories won in bitter silence.

Or the hard won faith that can never be shared

with those who walk beside

yet apart.

Those who walk on the edge of eternity

bear the look of eagles.

Resolutions by Desert Rose

I failed

Again!

I needed to stop needing you

But I ended up

Needing you more

Like the sea holding its shore

Wickedly extracted . . .

Enchanted

I wanted to never want you

But I only kept

That extreme urge

Like a spilled cup

Bewildered

Cursed myself

With words and tears

Crashed my hopes

With swords of fears

Bled to the core

What to do more?

I want to hate you

And learn the art of letting go

Whispered to my delusional mind

I soak myself in dreams

Feeling you around or so it seems

Killing myself with belief

Your absent presence is my relief

Or so I think

That way I sink

More into the neutral attention

That you simply expose

Beyond the verse and the prose

Through the fire of your burning sighs

These unheard cries

Where you hide me

Within the muse

Reading all your cues

Laughing till bursting tears

In the sudden happening of silence

But

I still shiver to your undialed call

Run to your unopened arms

Dance around your never mine charms

I still hail

To your comings

And I still fail

At my never accomplished resolutions

Methods of Submissions:

 

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Weekly poetry collection starts on Sunday, at 2pm, and will stay open until Wednesday, 8pm, 78 hours for you to share your talent with us!

Theme for next week?

Week 21 Theme will be:  Children's Stories, Riddles, Counting Songs, and Rhyming Lyrics for Young Kids.  Keep up the excellence.  Hope to see you share then!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS TO JANUARY BABIES, YEAH!

January 1, Kavita, http://kavisionz.wordpress.com

January 4, Ina, http://inaweblogisback.wordpress.com

January 12, lolamouse, lolamousedroppings.blogspot.com

January 18, Imagina, http://imagina1.wordpress.com/

January 19, Sina, http://ssina.wordpress.com

January 23, deadpoet88, deadpoet88.wordpress.com/

January 26, Teenage Poet, http://www.teenagepoet.wordpress.com/

January 29, AlmondJoycie, joycefied.wordpress.com

January 28, Krisse, http://mytracesofpassage.blogspot.com/

H A P P Y   P O E T R Y   P I C N I C !

Happy New Year, Welcome In and Enjoy The Fun!

1.	Purvi	36.	FireandIce	71.	Noble	106.	Marlee-I Mystic
2.	jacqui binford-bell	37.	Welkin Siskin	72.	201 J	107.	She Lives In a Fairy Tale By:~L
3.	Life Is That Easy	38.	marit	73.	Elaine Danforth	108.	blueplatypus
4.	Ode To Dads	39.	EMK (New Year)	74.	Between Silences	109.	Sherrie Theriault
5.	Happy New Year	40.	Joann / Into Stillness	75.	Janaki Nagaraj	110.	William Leed
6.	Today Is ...	41.	Jared A Muscat	76.	dan	111.	Daydreamertoo
7.	Andy	42.	LBTL	77.	dan	112.	Nelson
8.	thingy	43.	senses of soul	78.	Steven Federle	113.	Jeannette
9.	Richard King Perkins II	44.	Without	79.	She lives in the fair tales by ~L	114.	Tigerbrite
10.	Dennis Go	45.	Carousel ride	80.	Baishali	115.	Raivenne - Aspect
11.	Madeleine Begun Kane	46.	Kay Salady	81.	Innerstellar Dance Party	116.	Simran Kaur
12.	Language of the Trees	47.	Grace	82.	Richard King Perkins II	117.	Belva@MainelyMugUps
13.	mindsinger	48.	Timoteo	83.	K. Shawn Edgar - Lot	118.	Steven Federle
14.	Gerry Boyd	49.	Marousia	84.	kirti	119.	Chevrefeuille
15.	You Kissed Me	50.	The Happy Amateur	85.	k. shawn Edgar - Mona	120.	bis.philo
16.	Kodjo Deynoo	51.	Lindsay Waller-Wilkinson	86.	Hema Rao	121.	José Ruy
17.	booguloo	52.	Amity	87.	Hope!	122.	Bijaylaxmi
18.	Marbles in My Pocket	53.	David (1MereMortal)	88.	gautami tripathy	123.	Steven Federle
19.	Kenyatta Jean-Paul García	54.	Steven Federle	89.	Rach	124.	Rosie Gan
20.	Daydreamertoo	55.	Steven Federle	90.	psychebubbles	125.	blitzken
21.	Danny Earl Simmons	56.	Pisces	91.	Charlie Parant	126.	Neha
22.	Kodjo Deynoo	57.	Steven Federle	92.	Happy New Year Couplets	127.	Meiro
23.	Semaphore / Samuel Peralta	58.	Steven Federle	93.	gautami tripathy	128.	Meiro
24.	Leonora Sophie	59.	Katherine	94.	Belva@MainelyMugUps	129.	Purvi Petal
25.	Kellie	60.	mm	95.	A.B. Thomas	130.	Purvi's Fairy Tale
26.	Shadiatique	61.	Rachana Shakyawar - Resolution of New Year	96.	Tigerbrite	131.	Miss Sparkle
27.	Jo Bryant	62.	Asim Kumar Paul	97.	becca givens	132.	B
28.	siggiofmaine	63.	She Ate	98.	Tekia	133.	B (Crying.Lying.Dead)
29.	zongrik	64.	Peonies and Pockets	99.	Shawn Bird	134.	Chèvrefeuille
30.	Rinkly Rimes	65.	PhokuFeed	100.	Anthony F. Rando	135.	Chèvrefeuille
31.	Rach	66.	Kevin Alan Lamb	101.	New Years- Poetsandall	136.	Steven Federle
32.	Fairytale Wishes (Terri)	67.	Kevin Alan Lamb	102.	Nicole Wian	137.	Gloria
33.	Wes	68.	Ramesh Sood	103.	Cloaked Monk	138.	Rosie Gan
34.	Gigi Ann	69.	Ramesh Sood	104.	P-Dodge	139.	kristina danielle
35.	gigi ann	70.	Raivenne	105.	Quaz

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