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 !