Happy New Year!
Hope New Year’s Eve was just the way you like it; noisy glitz til dawn or peaceful evening not quite til midnight. Blogging friend Devang from India had a good suggestion for this month’s poetry challenge; write a poem about New Year’s traditions in your country.
USA
A cork sent flying
hunger no canapé can fill
a toast to words we’ve oft forgot
midnight in Times Square.
–Rebecca Cuningham, 1 January 2023
If you do not follow your country’s traditions, write about what the new year means to you.. We will write 5–7 lines of free verse for either subject. Rated G please. Please place your link or poem in the comments below by January 8th at noon Chicago time. I’ll publish a post January 10th with your poems and the translations.
Dawn
creases in the page
that may hold ink
like footprints in the snow
encircling birdseed
a feathered thought
soaring for the trees
the curve of a half note beak fills with song
–Rebecca Cuningham, 1 January 2023
Great to see you! Let’s see what our poetic nets capture today. ¡Olé! –Rebecca
¡Feliz año nuevo!
Espero que hayas pasado la Noche vieja tal como te guste; ruidoso con brillo hasta el alba o noche pacífica hasta casi la medianoche. Amigo bloguero Devang de la India tuvo una sugerencia buena para el Reto poético este mes; escribe un poema acerca de las tradiciones del año nuevo en tu país.
EEUU
un corcho volador
antojitos que no satisfacen
un brindis a palabras olvidadas
medianoche en Times Square.
–Rebecca Cuningham, 1 enero 2023
Si no sigas las tradiciones de tu país, escribe acerca de lo que significa el año nuevo para ti. Este mes escribiremos 5 a 7 líneas de verso libre. Para todas las audiencias por favor. Pon tu enlace o poema en los comentarios abajo antes del mediodía el 8 enero (Chicago). Publicaré un artículo el 10 enero con sus poemas y los traducciones.
El alba
impresiones en la página
que esperan tinta
como pasos en la nieve
ofreciendo semillas a pajaritos
un pensamiento emplumado
volando hacia los árboles
la curva de una nota que un pico se llena con música
–Rebecca Cuningham, 1 enero 2023
¡Qué gusto verte! Veremos que capturemos en la red poética hoy. ¡Olé! –Rebecca
Fake Flamenco 
That’s a good idea from Devang. Though I’ll have to write about going to bed super-early with a hot water bottle and a good book 😉 Happy new year!
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Hee hee, many years I’m part of the early set as well. The hot water bottle does have a certain modern poetic ring to it, though… 😉
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Oh, it’ll find its place there in the finished article, I’m sure 😉
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Happy New Year, Rebecca 🤗
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Thanks, Chris. To you as well!
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And I don’t remember when I said that, haha
Let me think of some poet friends and let them know.
Many poets that I know are very hard to convince and give me many excuses, haha
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Thanks for spreading the word, Devang.
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I will keep trying.
happy new year
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Thanks, Devang!
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Great idea for this month’s challenge, Rebecca. January seems often to slip by so quickly that it’s nice to “net” a line or too in its honor.
Love the photo!!
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Thanks, Suzette. I’m indebted to Devang for the idea. January itself might escape our nets, but as long as we’re blessed with a poem to nourish us. Thanks, glad you like the photo!
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Absolutely, well said. Nourishment is crucial!!
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Hi Rebecca. I hope we will have a peaceful happy year! I will try my best!
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Thanks, Sandy. Me too.
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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute! It was a lot of fun writing 😄
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Thanks, Aggie. Great poem for the new year!
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Love these. Happy New Year Rebecca! 3️⃣1️⃣🕛1️⃣
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Thanks very much, Cindy! Hope 2023 is a good year.
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Love your poems, Rebecca 🙂 Best wishes in this New Year!
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Thanks, Rosaliene! The same for you and your family, happy 2023!
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Wonderful challenge and poems!
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Thanks, Carolyn! All that rest over the vacation put me in the mood to write. 🙂
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These will be fun to read! 👏🏻
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Thanks, Michele! Hope you’re inspired to join in. 🙂
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My new year’s was wonderfully relaxing – not sure that makes for interesting reading. 😁 I will most definitely enjoy the work of others and learning about traditions. 😊
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Have a blessed year ahead, Rebecca 💖
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Thank you, Saba! Likewise for you. 🙂
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Really like those poems! Especially the line “hunger no canapé can fill.”
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Thank you! Glad you like that line.
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Midnight Turns the Year
Children:
Big, excited eyes
Permission to stay up late
Parents:
Must we? Why?
Perhaps for children’s sake
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Thank you, Sarah! Your verse sums it up so well. 🙂
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Thanks for a great challenge!
https://tinastewartbrakebill.com/2023/01/04/a-new-year-comes-to-florida/
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Thanks Tina for the follow and contributing a poem to the challenge.
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My pleasure 😇
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Hi Rebecca, here’s my effort
http://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2023/01/04/new-years-poetry-challenge-january-2023/
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Here’s mine: https://oddsends707138946.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/how-to-begin-a-new-year-by-britta-benson/ Thanks for the challenge!
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Hmm, I was looking at the chorus to the song I posted, and it is 13 liens and doesn’t really match the challenge, and maybe not free verse (it is a song) but… Anyway, here it is, the chorus to The New Year’s Song:
Next year it will be better
I promise
Things will turn out alright
The clouds will blow off
Don’t you worry
And the sun’ll be so bright
Put some hope in the world
I implore you
Keep up the good fight
‘Cause
We’ll push on together
Into the
Light
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Thanks, Trent. I like the wording and massage very much.
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Lovely sentiments – and brave of you to ‘promise’ that things will turn our alright!
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Well, I said “Next year”, so that might be 2024… lol, yeah, looking at the world it is a hard promise to keep. This was supposed to be part of a song I recently wrote that ended up 100% instrumental.
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Optimism is something to hang onto at all costs!
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Yep. I may have a dark side, but I’m an optimist at heart.
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Very warm and supportive
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Oof! I started something, then popped it away and rather forgot about it. I’m just in time to squeeze under the wire, I think.
Dull December. Find
warm pyjamas,
a hot water bottle and
a favourite book. Retire to bed and
sleep. Wake up renewed
In January.
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Oh, I like it. Well done, Margaret!
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Thanks, Rebecca.
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Hello Rebecca:
Here is my link.
http://suzetteb.home.blog/2023/01/08/tradition-a-poem-in-free-verse-poetrychallenge/
Happy weekend!!
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Thanks for the new year’s feast of words!
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