Morning Memories Of Scraping New Year's Off The Walls Of My Soul (redux)

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icebox
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in the shadows

0 posted 2011-01-01 04:04 PM

Where are the New Year's mornings of old?
No battered hospitality frills
nor glaring hospital bills,
no police being placated,
no shiny new court dates
where I must be chastened,
no remnants of fires
put out in a haste
and no food debris
nor yesterday's wine
scattered for survivors to taste,
no broken furniture to see
nor wasted nude nymphets
sleazy but fine littering the place
entangled with house guests
they've sincerely just met,
though whose names
they hadn't quiet gotten yet,
no supplications to gods have been used,
I'd bet no reputations even were bruised,
and here I am up before sundown
as if I could choose to survey the place
with barely a decent frown on my face,
moving around
without hair of the dog,
not struggling hopelessly
at clearing the fog,
without even needing
to be told what I am
and able to face all I did in the night,
even the porcelain god seems neglected!
I tell you my friends
it just doesn't seem right,
and this old age stuff isn't what I expected,

©2005, 2011 by icebox

[This message has been edited by icebox (01-01-2011 06:09 PM).]

Honeybunch
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1 posted 2011-01-01 04:43 PM

Enjoyed the read, icy, and, yes, the old age stuff isn't what was expected but let's hope for a good year in spite of that shall we?

My new year's day was spent emptying cupboards in preparation for a move but I told my kids that perhaps I'd rather be sleeping off a hangover - not so sure now after reading your poem.

Helen

JerryPat
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2 posted 2011-01-01 05:37 PM

Another good repost. It seems everyone except me and maybe Sunshine has reposted today and I'll admit my effort falls far short of anything else here. I not kidding when I ask it is tradition or something that everyone is reposting?

When early morning quietness seeps into my being
it's like I'm being hugged by everything good in the world.—August 16, 2010

Balladeer

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3 posted 2011-01-01 05:59 PM

icebox, with a past like that, I'm surprised you even reached old age!

I never had new year parties like that in my youth. Consider that a complaint!

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21

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4 posted 2011-01-01 07:10 PM

I read you and wonder. I, like Mike, have never had a New Year's party like that.We had good times but nothing like I hear about. All our kids used to pop in to our parties, because we just had good clean fun. After they became a little older I can not vouch for them.Parents are the last to know and most, I am sure would prefer not to.LOL Happy New year to you and it must be nice to wake up clear headed.. jo

Marchmadness
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5 posted 2011-01-01 07:37 PM

Great poem, Mr. Ice. Makes me truly happy that I've never had a hangover. After reading this I am also surprised that you reached old age.
Ida

Sunshine

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6 posted 2011-01-01 08:10 PM

Ice, my friend...
been there, done that, and the porcelain gods? Well, they all needed time out now and then...

but of course, it could all be because our knees don't bend like they use to and knowing that we are now the ones who are prone to cleaning up after ourselves because for most of us, our parents are gone!...

but you are right...and as Jerry noted, we're reposting oldies and goodies....but Jerry might figure out soon...if not for us, and reposting what the newer members/kids might not search for, are the answers to life...

and we all have views and clues as to how it could and should be done...and then we clean up our acts, or sometimes we try...and then we leave THAT in our wake...so that the kids among us might realize that they're going to see 2051...and have an insight to our out-a-sight world.

And that, dear friends, is my philo moment.

Margherita
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7 posted 2011-01-02 02:45 PM

Isn't it just great to be conscious and ready to greet dawn clear-headed?

Powerful slice of memory of times gone, dear Charly.

Until a few years ago here it was tradition to throw old broken porcelaine out of the windows at midnight and I tell you I am so glad this doesn't happen anymore. What a mess it was and people didn't always look where they threw their things ... so you can imagine!

Happy New Year, often things are not like we want them to be, but we can still make the best of what is.

Love,
Margherita

ethome
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8 posted 2011-01-02 02:49 PM

Different world ain't it?

Great lines in this!

Eric

ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call
and kinda driftin away from it all

serenity blaze
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9 posted 2011-01-02 04:00 PM

no shiny new court dates?

If you happen to have an old mug shot, we could pretend. *laughing*

Me? I can't even have a shot in my old mug.

We have earned this day, C. Why--it's international SLEEP day!

(Read the James Patterson, btw. Methinks my mother is just lowering the bar for me...)

BluesSerenade
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10 posted 2011-01-02 04:08 PM

Those were some wild and crazy times...I shudder to think.

Gawd it was so much fun though!! Awww heck, my youth made me do it!!

You captured it all, icebox! The good, the bad and the ugly!!

Rex Allen McCoy
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11 posted 2011-01-02 11:43 PM

There's a lot can be said about being a designated driver ... especially the next day

passing shadows
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12 posted 2011-01-06 12:51 PM

yeah, old age and marriage

wow, I hadn't thought of it but yeah, I think the same thing

boy I miss the old days (but I probably wouldn't survive a trip to the past)

Alison

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13 posted 2011-01-06 02:13 AM

I am so glad that you reposted this and I am so glad that I read it.

A

icebox
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in the shadows

14 posted 2011-01-15 01:51 PM

Thank you all for the gift of your time and for your comments.

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