The Blues & Good News New Year's Jam

[Doreen Peri]

Event Announcement

Please join us to ring in 2104 and to share revelations,
sensations, vibrations and rhythmic creations –
Did you have a bad year and want to have one that's better?
Was it rough? Was it tough? Bring your verses, words, & letters.
Even it it was fantastic, here's the good news…
Bring your pen and write some inspiration! (Or some blues.)
This is the full disclosure — It's time to start over!

Bring your spontaneous pen.
Jam on this thread about
starting over again.
Poetry & prose.
Anything goes.

December 30, 2013 — January 7, 2104

[the mingo]

I'm first response?
shit!
all downhill from here
and isn't there something somewhere
about the first shall be last?
down the hole is down the hole, friends
jam hard, jam often, jam on!

[Steve Plonk]

Chocolate pieces of eight
Chocolate pieces of eight
Some "poor man's caviar" on
Pumpernickel rye
Feeling fly, so away I go
Down into ice caves
In ten feet of snow...
I'm late, i'm late,
Late for that important date...
Not ready yet to hibernate...

[libramoon]

awaiting the new
anticipating deleting
old reviews,
debts no longer due
hoping that greeting
"Happy! Celebration"
proves true

[RonPrice]

This post is sent from Tasmania, Australia with 13 hours left in 2013. I came across a delightful phrase in a poem, and so send it along to all those "who have trouble with belief" in whatever, whatever someone else would like them to believe in. The phrase is: "the will that will not will belief." Seasons greetings to you all from Downunder in the Antipodes.
-Ron Price.

[constantine]

here comes another one
just like the other one
welcome to the slippery slope
the land of diminishing returns
it's a bordertown -
a liminal state to be in
like checking in while you're checking out
let the years come and go
i'll wave bye-bye
and whistle while i disintegrate

[ImNotEd]

Almost gone
Father time
Will come and claim
Another one of his own
Taking the old man
And replacing him
With the customary newborn
Filling the same fate
Of so many before
All that matters
Is what happens
In between
The two inevitable's

[Doreen Peri]

It was a helluva year.
Deer got hit. Roadkill,
damaged vehicles, bumpers
dumped on the side of the road.
Code wasn't rendering correctly.
Faucets eroded and heads
exploded like they were
target shot.
Wonder what the universe
has got in store for the next.
Typing with my thumbs.
Crumbs thrown down
to the peons.
Darn pigeons pokin' their beaks
trying to pick 'em up to eat 'em.

[constantine]

the universe is no better
than the microverse, both
claim to be infinite, but
somehow
one is bigger than the other
it's a matter of perception
like a spiraling manicotti
who knows which end is up

[stilltrucking]

I believe
I will
have another

it was a very good year for me
my heart is beating still
I believe I will
have another one
these are the best of
the worst of
the good times
roll on

Macaroni
wordaroni

who knows
only the shadow do

[WIREMAN]

Up & down year
All in all
A happy survivor
Looking forward to
more than just
another year
Time to move on
Time to nomad
Time to JAM!!!

[stilltrucking]

just a year
sounds good to me

it only we could
make it a year of the just

just us
just ice

[judih]

big fat year
i said what? a lot
i said yes! to many
filled full
overflow
thought i'd learn
but still do so
yes alright
let's try new scenes
one more yes
in skinny jeans i train to tech
and jump the station
wrong-boy cop
applauds invention

[zero_hero]

word cops
and google bots
words to the wise
and words on the side
so many words
jam them
slam them
words on the rise
nothing like a word
in time

the joy of words everlasting

where can I find a girl who forgets about words
and have a word with her

[tarbaby]

jump into 2014
my best year never
new years
old fears
going nowhere fast
nothing lasts
do more expect less
hello to happiness