_______ To a Glad New Year _______
Toot the trumpets! Strike the strings and sing!
On your feet! Step lively in the dance!
Age and Youth alike are on the wing
Going forward: Time moves like a lance
Let loose by some celestial super strength
Amidst the muck and mire of our dozing
Driving us, reminding that life’s length
Never gives us room for much reposing.
Esurient? Appease the appetites
Wholesome and pure. The body, gross and vile,
Yields but sickly transient delights ~
Evoking ennui with a knowing smile.
Awake! A blessed New Year is at hand!
Resolve to love and give without demand!
~ FreeThinke
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| Time's a wastin' |
______Meanwhile Enjoy 1951's Royal Wedding
________ ON NEW YEAR'S DAY________
ReplyDeleteOur hope would be to take the roadblocks down
No more to have to hide behind the walls
Negativity built with a frown,
Even though she smiles in gleaming halls
Welcoming all with fawning falsity,
Yet yearning all the while for something solid.
Excitement dies in stuffy halls at tea,
As hypocrisy makes discourse witless, stolid.
Rarely may we speak without a filter.
‘Tis safer not, lest someone take offense.
So, fearing to be thought bizarre –– off kilter ––
Daft –– depraved –– or simply too intense ––
A fear of ostracism serves P-C,
Yielding a moribund society.
~ FreeThinke
As you proceed you need to heed
ReplyDeleteThis ancient adage droll:
Conservatives see the doughnut
While Leftists see only the hole!
~ Anne Ominous
___ To Lifelong Frends On Entering ___
ReplyDelete_________Their Tenth Decade _________
Nifty! There’s a piece of antique slang.
It well describes this most engaging couple.
Not too many remain quite so supple
Entering their nineties with a bang.
They’ve stayed involved, and managed with great skill
Year by year appearing calm –– serene ––
Yet eager to share insights ever green ––
Ever gently tough –– to resist ill.
An apparent lack of empathy once grated ––
Ruffled feathers always long for smoothing!
Self-control, however, is more soothing
Once easy sympathy proves overrated.
Longings to be whole are satisfied in
Denying rights to mar what we take pride in.
~ FreeThinke
Year by year appearing calm –– serene ––
DeleteYet eager to share insights ever green ––
Ever gently tough –– to resist ill.
I wish that were true for Mr. AOW and me. Oh, well. Time marches on.
Oh they too have had teir ugh times, AOW. At age 63 he suffered a massive heart attack. A year later he went through four-way bypass surgery. It was touch and go for a while, but after he recovered, he and his wife enjoyed some travel, did he did some of the most significant and rewarding work of his long career. He even gave a solo piano recital to celebrate his ninetieth in front of a large audience.
DeleteAnd she went through a hip replacement at age 92, which was amazingly successful.
Franco,
ReplyDeleteExcellent sonnet!
Happy New Year. May 2019 be kind to us.
May you enjoy a blessed and prosperous 2019!
ReplyDeleteHave a Great Year Franco !
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