Sunday 31 December 2023

So You Want to Make a Resolution

New Year Celebration GIF by jon hanlan

 

The old year fades to history

In celebration tinged with sorrow

No longer holding influence

On what the future holds tomorrow

 

Now we need new trials and tasks

Demanding valued guarantees

To leave behind those fading days

Which brought that old year to its knees

 

Looking forward to some better times

On springtime sunny avenues

Where potential waits for open eyes

Not drowning in the blues

 

When making resolutions new

Choose what most likely will prevail

No touching wood with fingers crossed

Lack of earnestness will fail



"One of the saddest tendencies in our present culture is an indignant intolerance for the basic humanity of being human" 

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/01/resolutions-for-living/



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A Hypocrites Guide to New Year Resolutions

1.          Exercise regularly and stay fit

2.     Eat healthier and maintain a steady style

3.     Learn a new skill or hobby 

4.     Save money and manage finances better

5.     Travel more and explore new places

6.     Spend more time with loved ones and nurture relationships

7.     Volunteer and give back to the community

8.     Reduce stress, trust and practise mindfulness

9.     Read more books and expand knowledge

10.  Focus on personal growth and self-improvement

Friday 29 December 2023

I Thought As Much

 Thinking Thought GIF

In abstract many thoughts untried

To contemplate what may result

Daydreaming other outcomes

Within a thinking somersault 

 

One might call it work in progress

Smart selections in the air

Meditating new conclusions

Along with others left to share

 

Cocooned in the subjunctive

A pleasant reverie appeals

To leave some thoughts indicative

Worth more than what one feels

 

Sticking with it to conclusions

Though unfinished slightly crude

My teapot warmed essentially

Improves ingredients when brewed

 

 

 

Thursday 28 December 2023

Magnum Opus

 Unlabeled GIF


She played 

A dulcet clarinet

Choral music 

Deep motet

Recorded on 

A tape cassette

Then left it 

On the cabinet

Beside the golden

Hair barrette

She'd wear to play

Her mock soubrette






Musica Improvise GIF by Barbara Pozzi


Wednesday 27 December 2023

Next Year Looming

Slow Walk GIF 

On foot December Wednesday

With two good shoes I wear

At brisker pace I’ll be there soon

With a few hours more to spare

 

Should it rain I have my hat

Shading light from barefaced skies

Well away from furious clouds

Clearer eyesight for my eyes

 

Wednesdays are that way with me

Nonstop pointlessly so-so 

Grey panorama lacking drama

A flickering light about to blow

Friday 22 December 2023

Surfacing

Photo by NEOM on Unsplash

 

Words are our interpreters

Voices of our silent minds

Often speaking uninvited

As consciousness unwinds

 

Languages of many codes

With mutual patterned themes

Converting conversations

To our universal dreams

 

Words are mere creations

Speaking wonders to surmount

Elevating new exchanges

By letting numbers count



Thursday 21 December 2023

Heavenly Stirrings




 

 Photo by Jigar Panchal on Unsplash


Observing trails of comet dust

Bursting showers in the night

Interstellar messengers

Carrying spores of life in flight

 

Astrophysical encounters

Relating what was once now past

Fragments of phenomena

Retold in grains of fractals cast

 

From the churning of our universe

Where vacuumed pieces scatter

Widely circulating streams

Recycle strains replenished matter

Tuesday 19 December 2023

Nature Nurtures

Froggies Froggies Token GIF 

The forest undertaker

Collecting long lost leaves

Takes them to the netherworld

Where the grateful earth receives

 

They blend in their surroundings

Turning loss into new gains

Augmenting new realities

Where continuity maintains

 

And so, it is with everything

All embraced in common ground

Components and constituents 

Where fresher ways are found



Saturday 16 December 2023

Forever For Now

Cloud GIF

 







Connected in a fibre cloud

That ‘always-place’ online

In a warehouse full of data

An almost limitless confine

 

Vastly filled with tiny packets

Accessed as and when required

So many pins and needle points

At amazing speeds acquired

 

At last, we know that afterlife

Our shape of immortality 

Is a mist of timelessness

On a cloud eternally

 


Having listened to this interesting take on BBC Sounds "Understand Tech and AI" with Spencer Kelly  I must conclude that immortality is a data possibility.


Seasonal Adjustments

stand up lol GIF by Animation Domination High-Def

 

Comedy is ludicrous

The laughing side of life

Gives the bleak an elbow tweak

Jokes away with strife

 

It’s not that sad is funny

Too much tragic can’t be done

Among the tears a hiding smile

A mischievous sense of fun

 

So, pull a leg or chase a goose

Accept banana skins will slip

When being led up garden paths

Own each and every trip

 

 

Thursday 14 December 2023

Hard Work



When words resist manipulation
Refusing to connect
No lexicon or thesaurus
Will cure your clogged select

 

Having checked the latest headlines

Oddly posted networked feeds

You’ll have to write on purpose

Something floral free of weeds

 

Sitting lonely without purpose

When inspiration slams the door

Sweats and threats confounding you

Navigating force majeure



Tuesday 12 December 2023

Bit of a Let Down

 

Photo by Waldemar on Unsplash

In bathrooms and restrooms

Whether standing or sat

Pretending you’re elsewhere

And didn’t do that

 

Download a brownload

Dropping a bomb

Installing a poopipe

In a bowl with aplomb

 

Letting go of your baggage

When outing the dump

Avoiding the fallout

Of that obnoxious stump

Based on a great blog by Lawrence Brown 


Monday 11 December 2023

Vague Rants

Pondering Which One GIF by Tkay Maidza

 

Whether certain or uncertain

Two ambiguous positions

Agreeing one or something other

Must bring about divisions

 

For certain or uncertain

If it’s proffered second hand

Is merely an opinion

Or confused as a demand

 

When certain or uncertain

Is in a clear-cut set of rules

Why is it only those uncertain

Who get shunned for being fools

Saturday 9 December 2023

Fallacy



 







Photo by nilufar nattaq on Unsplash



Believers looking for their proof

In stocks of wishful thinking

Staring hard in case they miss

The evidence when blinking

 

Someone said they had the lowdown

On government sponsored plots

To grip our population tight

By tying us all in knots

 

They heard it from a trusted friend

A source declared impeccable

Such confidence in rumour rounds

As weird beliefs become unshakeable





“What a man wishes he generally believes to be true”

― Demosthenes

Quiet Time










Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplas



Looking at a garden view

Where nature hibernated

The stillness brings a lowness

Lighting concepts understated

 

In this stealthy time of change

Barely action anywhere

A picture peaceful quietude

Just to site awhile and stare

Thursday 7 December 2023

Wayward Ho


 







Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash


Shortcuts are not always quickest

Alleyways can turn out detrimental

Your choices suggest ways to go

Still, it’s no time to be sentimental

 

Wear loosely your wintertime eyes

Look around every shadowy bend

This is no place to be lost and lonely

Smiling faces are playing let’s pretend

 

If you’re chasing a wild west illusion

Where the high horse is ridden by you

Don't count on an easy advantage
Taking gambles will not see you through

Tuesday 5 December 2023

All Around the Hearth













When winter drains the colour out
Imagination gets first turn
To tell a story make up myths
In a monochrome upturn

 

Darkness carries heavy spells

In the hush of eventide

Flickering in candlelight

Where desiring cannot hide

 

The peak of darkness brings new hope

Of golden days returning

To pack away those disappearing hours

So we can hang on to our yearning

Sunday 3 December 2023

Rethink Required

 Tmc Tmcsverige GIF

We speak of things unnatural

Intelligence man made

A progression to regression

Bleak dystopian retrograde

 

The story of our human past

Progresses war by war

Astutely on a killing spree

We malevolently outpour

 

Fools are following leaders

Who support their violent claims

With blood lust appetisers

To burn the future down in flames


Our systems cannot give us hope

Out of our politic machine

Led by unlawful self indulgence

Who sold us off as seen