Poets United Mid-Week Motif ~ Newness

“How fast the stream flows from January to December!” 

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

A MOTIF is an important and usually repeating idea or theme in a work of art,  a feature in a decoration or design <a flower motif in wallpaper> , and similar ideas in music and science.

 Today’s Motif: Newness 

In 75 words or less: A New Year.  Again.  Are you a fan of "new"? Or are you tired of the whole idea of "new," preferring the tried and true?  As I take over Kim's Verse First starting today, I feel almost too much newness.  I miss her already.

My favorite thing about a New Year in the Northeast USA is that I see the return of the light that began with the Winter Solstice. Days grow longer and promise is in the air.  This is both new and old, recurring year after year.

Today I am inspired by poets Carl Adamshick and Jimmy Santiago Baca:

New years' morning by Carl Adamshick
A low, quiet music is playing— distorted trumpet, torn bass line, white windows. My palms are two speakers the size of pool-hall coasters. I lay them on the dark table for you to repair.                                                    (35 words)
Copyright © 2010 by Carl Adamshick. From Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press, 2011). Used by permission of the author.  This poem was featured as 1/1/2014 poem-a-day at Poets.org.

It would be neat if with the New Year

     BY JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

                   for Miguel

It would be neat if with the New Year

I could leave my loneliness behind with the old year.

My leathery loneliness an old pair of work boots

my dog vigorously head-shakes back and forth in its jaws,

 . . . . 

 ~See the rest at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179715 

From Winter Poems Along the Río Grande. Copyright © 2004 by Jimmy Santiago Baca. 

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Wonder Wednesday

Wonder Wednesday will return next week. We are going to take a break and allow everyone, to enjoy their holiday season.  We hope everyone is safe n' warm and enjoying time out with their loved ones~

We will return on January 2nd, with a bit of chicken soup for your soul.   Yes, poems that will warm your heart or challenge you to make a wish.  That is your hint, for now ;D

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Happy New Year poets!