Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Half Year and also World UFO Day

After I give lectures--on almost any subject--I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is 

a matter of belief and not evidence.  I'm almost never asked, "How good is 

the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?"

--CARL SAGAN, The Demon Haunted World, 1995

 Midweek Motif ~

Half Year and World UFO DAY 

According to Wikipedia, July 2nd:  

. . . is the midpoint of a common year because there are 182 days before and 182 days after it in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years. The exact time of the middle of the year is at noon.   

Your Challenge:  Pick #1 or #2 or both:

 #1. Time to check in on those New Year Resolutions.  How are you/we doing? What do New Year Resolutions look like at Midyear?

Early 20th-century New Year's resolution postcards

#2. If you've got #1 covered, consider addressing World UFO Day!

World UFO Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WorldUfoDay

Three Poetic Inspirations:

from Burning the Old Year

BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Letters swallow themselves in seconds.   

Notes friends tied to the doorknob,   

transparent scarlet paper,

sizzle like moth wings,

marry the air.

So much of any year is flammable . . . .

(Read the rest HERE at the Poetry Foundation)

from Song of the Open Road

BY WALT WHITMAN

15

Allons! the road is before us!

It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain’d!

Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d!

Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn’d!

Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!

Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.

Camerado, I give you my hand!

I give you my love more precious than money,

I give you myself before preaching or law;

Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?

Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

     (Read the first 14 parts HERE at the Poetry Foundation.)

What Exists

BY susan Chast  © 2014

UFOs exist

only if we see them

which makes them quite

different from God and leaves

and friends and hearts

which cannot be

locked up.

Even worlds

of fiction have properties

of reality no matter how far-fetched
but UFOs from afar and their

uninvited guests—

(we are told) do

                      not exist. 

Please: 
 1. Post your new poem on either (a) a resolution motif or (b) a UFO motif  (or both) on your site, and then link it here. 
 2. Share only original and new work written for this challenge.
 3. Leave a comment here. 
 4. Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems. 

 (Next week's Midweek Motif is Keys.)

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