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Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

0 posted 2002-12-31 01:54 PM

Thank you for this year, that now slowly sets toward  a sunset
carpeting the land in orange, as clouds cover the skies of
blue before stars land amongst the darkness..

A year of quiet, of joy....of tears in reflection of lives that
were lost to acts horrid to most, plausible to some.  Time
when hands were rung, when chairs were gripped in anxious
moments, when babies were born into a world of beauty and
death...

Months that have flown by as a gentle breeze covers a field of
wheat awaiting the harvest....Where events have spawned the
fury of nature,   the anger of humanity and the sadness of souls
standing in silent shock...  Times of terror and times of sheer
exhilaration....The feel of a sudden drop from the highest peak
upon a roller coaster of emotions....The shriek of acceleration
and wide-eyed awe...

Weeks of decisive indecision, of unrelenting relentlessness, of
the heat of a winter, the cool of a summer, so much that was
not as it should be....A time of doubt, of resolve, of answers
and whys, of shouts and silence....of countless senseless
acts of violence, abduction and fears.

Days have brought into our lives many joys, many moments
of reflection and quiet pondering of what might be, of what
was...  Computers gave us the world at our fingertips, as
we said hello, we sighed, even as a tear fell into the brink
of humility....For life is most awesome, yet humbling.

Such was the year of 2002, may we reflect and learn
as we journey into a new year of our young and small
yet great existence in but a speck of history....

Happy New Year to you all...

Barry

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

1 posted 2002-12-31 02:00 PM

Wonderful reflections, Barry. Happy New Year.
Sandra

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2002-12-31 02:04 PM

So much to reflect upon m'friend.
Well done.
~Happy New Year to you and yours!~

~Time has cast a spell on you,
So you won't ever forget me~

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2002-12-31 02:34 PM

Barry

"For life is most awesome, yet humbling"

Indeed it is, my friend. Happy New year to you!

garysgirl

Member Laureate

since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

4 posted 2002-12-31 02:45 PM

Barry, I loved your "reflections"...... HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS

"Love makes the world go around"
~~with love and hugs from Ethel~~

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2002-12-31 02:45 PM

Happy New Year Barry!

Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

6 posted 2002-12-31 04:13 PM

Happy new year and I'm glad i was able to share a pert of it with you and all the poets here on the Blue.

Toerag
Member Ascendant

since 1999-07-29

Posts 5622
Ala bam a

7 posted 2002-12-31 04:14 PM

Barry....Maggie....Happy New Year to you too.....I know mine will be happy....hell, I'm nuts?

regards2you
Member Elite

since 2002-10-01

Posts 3940
California

8 posted 2002-12-31 05:02 PM

Barry,

You did capture much here with this reflective poem, another of many I was priveledged to read...May you and yours have the happiest ever coming new year. I thank you for sharing your remarkable mind, heart and soul, and the gift of writing such fantastic poetry, with us.

God bless you and yours, Hugs, Pat

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
"Desiderata"

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

9 posted 2002-12-31 05:04 PM

Happy New Year dear poet Balladeer !

All the best in 2003 !! Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-
that perches in the soul....

-Emily Dickinson

Sandpiper
Senior Member

since 2002-06-15

Posts 738
land of flora and fauna

10 posted 2003-01-01 08:56 AM

A lovely, reflective read on this New Year's morn--thank you!--and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

"And it was at that age...Poetry arrived in search of me...And something started in my soul."
Pablo Neruda

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

11 posted 2003-01-01 02:06 PM

Right back atcha kiddo. Well done.
ThisDiamond

Rainbowdust
Member

since 2002-12-05

Posts 320
Sydney, Australia

12 posted 2003-01-05 04:16 AM

Thank you for capturing so beautifully the paradoxes and reasons why life is worthwhile. Happy New Year Barry and may inspiration, laughter and love be yours every day.

The soul would have no rainbows, had the eyes no tears.

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