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New Years Resolution
New Year Resolution.
After all the Christmas gloating and bloating.
We have a brand-new year fast approaching.
Where we are all asked to make a resolution.
To our good feeling we make a contribution.
We know we won't honour our resolutions.
When we make them, we have no intention.
Farcical mind games we play with our self.
We convince our mind, surely it must ...
Wednesday 11th December 2024 7:25 pm
Parachutes
These little parachutes of hope and love,
Which float beneath a scowling new year sky,
Will counteract, with luck, the force of hate,
The universal half-truth, and the lie.
Though we take pot-shots at the usual crowd,
And don’t look up above to see what’s there,
The parachutes may lead to better things
Than one more year of feeble, standard fare.
Sunday 1st January 2023 3:16 pm
2023
Now we have finished 2022,
What did it mean for me and you?
Had it been for you a lovely year?
Or was it full of dread and fear?
In 2023 do you feel you'll cope?
And shall it contain joy and hope?
Will it contain great determination?
Will it bring unhappiness or elation?
Is it a year for special missions?
And one to plan new ambitions?
Shall it be a year full of belief?
And from you...
Saturday 31st December 2022 5:20 pm
Goodbye 2021?
Will this new year
be a new year?
Or, the same as the old?
I guess, patience is an essence of time
As we wait for what unfolds
So, goodbye to covid
Goodbye to crime
Goodbye to war
Make peace in our time
Goodbye to jealousy
Goodbye to rage
Let love be the sunlight
And, Earth, be its stage
Goodbye dictators
Goodbye to greed
We're under on...
Friday 31st December 2021 6:04 pm
nightly thoughts
a chocolate Santa Claus
a piece of motivation
a piece of dedication
a piece of dictation
mission failed
a piece of self hate
a piece of failure
a piece of disappointment
a piece of weakness
cancelled mission
new year, new start
mission restarted
self-hate
lose weight
goals you have to achieve
goals you can't achieve
goals you must proceed
con...
Wednesday 29th December 2021 10:51 pm
The Day After The Day of Days
In the memory of all the flames that ignited coastlines,
The strings of dazzling Christmas lights,
The long-forgotten chronic normalcy,
The countless ceremonial wreaths—
I realize that from one beginning to the next,
We often overlook the vast expanse of nothingness.
Our stories swing from one pole to its antipode.
The aftermath, a distant folklore.
But every grocery store receipt,
E...
Monday 28th December 2020 2:22 pm
Our Covid Christmas
This year has been different and certainly strange,
So for this Covid Christmas we must all make a change.
With our loved ones we may not be able to share,
But remember them still and know that they do care.
Although Covid-19 makes us all be apart,
Try to be strong and remain stout of heart.
Though at this festive time numbers may be reduced,
Know a wonderful Christmas may still be produc...
Wednesday 16th December 2020 6:30 pm
Astronomer's New Year
This old Earth has taken another spin around the Sun. (1)
The Solar System continues its endless circle in the Milky Way. (2)
Andromeda has come closer (3)
as the Milky Way hurtles toward the Great Attractor (4)
Welcome to another year, another turn around Old Sol,
as we wobble through familiar yet unknown deep space
and spend more time with the music of the spheres
that resounds silent...
Monday 30th March 2020 3:47 pm
A Threadbare Year
A Threadbare year
Still too hot to touch
Those that were poor
Remain so
Those full of hope
Chocked on feathers
Ballot Boxes
Full of X defeating Y
Why this thread of decency and kindness
Has become a dye
Faded like a hippy t shirt
Folded away neatly
To decay and die
Instead they are puffed up bloated
And the I I I and ‘we’ will make our country great again
No matter how many
F...
Monday 13th January 2020 6:50 am
A New Year Meditation
Here we go again!
Twelve more months of winds and rain,
Of cereal bowls and coffee cups,
Of morning blues and getting up,
Chasing our tails in the hamster wheel,
Trying to understand the deal.
Here we go again!
Will it be different this time round?
Will the hamster wheel hit the ground
And take us to our promised land
Where music is made and we're in the band?
...Saturday 11th January 2020 7:36 pm
A New Year
Welcome in this fine new year,
For it has only just arrived.
In spite of worries you faced before
You came through it and survived.
So make it one of hope and joy
And find new ideas and new ambitions.
And know that you shall always cope,
And make successes be your mission.
Let it not be a year of despair
But one of joy for everyone.
And should you find life a bore,
Turn it into one...
Friday 3rd January 2020 1:58 am
The writing process
It's always the same New Year's resolutions for me...to write more often! Happy New Year to all ...
At First
Just a thought
Then some paper
The words
They came later
QWERTY was flirting
But kindly
I declined
It's demand
Held a pen
In my hand
And began
Wednesday 1st January 2020 10:49 pm
resolution
resolution
I don't do new year
there is a lot of noise here
none of it is mine
when the chimes kick in
auld lang syne hands are unlinked
as phones point skywards
cascading fireworks
fall on lost souls in doorways
where poverty lies
Wednesday 1st January 2020 2:41 pm
Small Promises
Out there beyond the hill
Lights twinkle in time with distant voices
Preparing for the new year,
Making small promises of things to come,
Promising small victories of things to overcome.
What will they remember
When they look back at the year,
The fickle promises collapsing around them
Or the achievements made,
Or the constant redirections to get them through anothe...
Tuesday 31st December 2019 11:14 am
Betwixt
Inspired by this time space we currently find ourselves in....
The land of betwixt and between
What's been
Versus
What is unseen
Next year hints
A clarity
Of vision
Perfect for
Leap year
Decisions!
Sunday 29th December 2019 4:53 pm
New Year, New Demons.
The sun sets around this dirty glass.
Just a few more hours until I become someone new and forget who I was.
Im waiting for the fireworks but they'll surely never come.
There's no celebration for killing the demon that's been killing everyone.
You think a simple crucifix could fix this.
I don't think I can send my monster back to hell.
I've killed my insides I'm nothing more then a shell o...
Wednesday 2nd January 2019 5:39 am
Jackdaw
(A poem for the turning of the year, taken from my 2013 collection A Long Way to Fall. The artwork that accompanies it is by the late great songwriter and social chronicler, Graeme Miles)
Out of the smoke of a candle flame
lit to mark the turning of the year
I rise, wreathe soot and feathers for my cloak.
Bright eyes flash long-forgotten glimmers, sparks
of peoples who’ve spun ghosts...
Monday 1st January 2018 10:29 pm
new year, new me.
new year, new me
new year, same old shit, same broken me.
the games they play will never change
the lies they tell will only grow in numbers
and every one
will erode at my happiness
and reduce what could have been mountains
down to only dirt.
i am broken
shattered
irrepairable
destroyed.
i used to be
i try to be
so kind
and compassi...
Monday 1st January 2018 6:57 pm
Forsaking Auld Lang Syne
Forsaking Auld Lang Syne
The city centre puddles
reflect fireworks in the sky
whilst stripped
Christmas wrapping paper
soaks up the deluge
like a homeless sleeping bag.
Dustbins overflow with leftovers
oiled with greasy greed.
A bottle of wine splatters against
the multi-storey car park wall,
vomited from the throat
of opulence at midnight.
...
Sunday 1st January 2017 7:53 pm
Haiku #220
Close the door slowly
Be quiet as you’re leaving
And turn out the lights
Sunday 1st January 2017 6:10 pm
New Year, New Year Resolutions
New year, New year resolution
Gotta be strong, want absolution
This year I'm going to lose some weight
But what will I do without my cake?
Carrot cake, is that one of my 5 a day?
That areas always been kinda grey
And New York cheesecake, that's not so bad
Without the cheese it could be a new fad
Lovely and rich, chocolate fudge
Keep eating that and the weight w...
Friday 13th February 2015 4:08 pm
Cronos (The Reaper)
Cronos (The Reaper)
I wait round corners where the air is still,
in darkened alleys wet with winter snow,
the places only fools and dreamers go.
You will not see me, but will feel my chill
on exposed places where the ice will spill
and with each prickle you will surely know
that, soon, the ancient blizzard wind will blow
and bring the reaper with it for the kill.
For I am called from so...
Monday 5th January 2015 7:13 pm
Resolution #9
Resolution #9
A cascade of sparks
exploding in the blackness
of a revellers sky
like bright tears.
Crying for the homeless
sat where the light
doesn’t fall,
under archways,
behind garages,
in cardboard boxes.
Damp and cold
while a flaming wheel
greets the crescent moon
as it circles.
A metaphor
of the turning year.
Out with the old and needy,
in with the bright young thin...
Thursday 1st January 2015 9:22 pm
NEARLY THERE
NEARLY THERE
In less than an hour it will be 1997.
In this short time do you remember?
Do you shrug off the past to make way for the future
or do you hold on to the dying year
seeing every minute disappear before your eyes?
On this, the last day we have been covered by snow
and frozen by the cold as the old God Cronus turns
his hour glass over for another year.
He c...
Wednesday 26th February 2014 5:41 pm
New Beginnings (by Mel)
New Beginnings (by Mel)
So here we stand once again
With an opportunity to start afresh.
Oh what joy this brings to my heart.
To let go of the past,
And to start a new chapter.
Allowing Love, Happiness and Peace
Into our hearts.
Filling our S...
Wednesday 9th January 2013 12:22 am
Purpose Hope Love
Tuesday 1st January 2013 11:52 pm
BACK O' PUB
BACK O' PUB
We went into the pub's beer garden to see the illegal vodka factory run by Eastern Europeans.
We dance madly around their lorry and sing, "Give us a drink! We're parched like the Gobi Desert. Don't you know, we drank the pub dry?...
Thursday 5th January 2012 3:18 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I’ll put on the table a New Year tree,
The smell of pine needles will fill my flat.
Champagne, chocolate…and I’ll start my spree,
With three candles I’ll chat.
These candles will be my spiritual world,
The lonely party is always free.
My heart will be twirled and purled,
Curse of troubles these candles will be.
With champagne I’ll fill the cryst...
Friday 30th December 2011 10:53 pm
New Year’s Day on Brighton Pier
That Hogmanay, that blissful distant winter
Along by Brighton Pier, we went to wander.
Resolutions made, we roamed on, rambling
Past the hulks of trundling traffic rumbling.
With no breath of heavy weather brewing,
Sea was millpond still, with no wind blowing;
Mild midwinter sun, echoing summer,
Sparkled on the swell, all silken shimmer.
Squawking seagulls ...
Friday 30th December 2011 2:52 pm
RESOLUTIONS
Resolutions
Not faint or fool to harsh regret,
No guilty feelings come to call,
The cards once dealt I seize and play,
And win or lose I love them all.
Contempt’s contentment stills the soul,
As bitter herbs the palate pall,
But better still to crush the doubt,
And blame the serpent for the fall.
This tapestry we call our lives,
Is threa...
Thursday 29th December 2011 9:31 am
A NEW YEAR
A NEW YEAR
Here comes the New Year, ever so fast,
a virgin time for us to play with!
What will happen? Will it be full of triumph
and tragedy like the last one,
or will it be a permanent high?
I think it will be a bit of both as it nearly always is.
Will you make any promises to yourself for this New Year?
It’s completely up to you. As for me ill stic...
Sunday 23rd October 2011 1:06 pm
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