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wordwizard
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0 posted 2004-01-01 11:09 AM



Easy to celebrate work up a commercial high
when you resist, with tea and toasted rye
you fall into disfavor among party fools
slaves to systems that venerate New Year tools


Happy Day, that should be like one and the next
a day of relaxation taken in balanced context
that goes down badly for the party goer
one is labeled too serious by a horn blower...


Easy to celebrate to an ecstacy and then
easy to fall prey to older habits again
let me enjoy more than the first of the year
than lie hung over from last night's beer.

Easy to celebrate in the company of ten
and easy to separate, not see them again
harder to take each day for what it really is
takes the sprite out of fun, removes the fizz....


Happy Day...should be like one and the next
concentrate on a carry over of joy well spent
it's harder to take a day for what it really is
can turn one silly as overnight stardom in showbiz...

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1 posted 2004-01-01 11:14 AM


wordwizard
I agree, enjoyed the read.

wordwizard
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2 posted 2004-01-01 11:16 AM


thanks for sharing Sy...a Happy healthy New Year to you..the day after and the day after that...


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3 posted 2004-01-01 11:20 AM


Hi word wizard. Mmm an interesting read. I agree. Since I never go out New Years but always stay home with my wife and daughter I do not get the concept some believe New Years has to be a big drunken celebration. We had family movie night, built puzzles and played games and I think it was probably the most enjoyable New Years celebration I have ever had. I know it will be a memory I'll cherish in old age...and for good memories I can never feel regret.

Remember, if you're not part of the future, you're history!

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4 posted 2004-01-01 11:20 AM


"let me enjoy more than the first of the year"


so true...staying home alone wasn't so bad
the only hangover was from trying to hang on until the New Year reached the west coast.

Enjoyed the truth in your words...I am often touted as being too serious and I definitely
am not a party goer and anyone who makes you feel bad because you don't  participate in such is not worth being around.

Wishing you the best every day of this new year.

Maureen

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5 posted 2004-01-01 04:19 PM


woordwizard

Every day and every minute is a new beginning...not just a new year.  I liked you poem alot.  My best to you, every day!

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6 posted 2004-01-01 04:20 PM


enjoyed
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7 posted 2004-01-01 04:35 PM


staying home alone wasn't too terrible...
and you're so right, because every day is new. And no second can be taken back.

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

wordwizard
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8 posted 2004-01-01 11:19 PM


No staying home contemplating a little of what's to come is not bad at all, thanks all for sharing

ecrivan


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9 posted 2004-01-02 11:58 AM


I worked New Year's Eve and New Year's Day so I didn't do anything to celebrate...but I do have a few bottles of sparkling wine in my fridge that will probably sit there till they get nice and aged...they were given to me as gifts.

I hate hangovers too much to ever drink more than one glass, now ad then.

Good write here...enjoyed

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10 posted 2004-01-03 01:49 AM


Passing

A drink against the addiction of one night!let us celebrate this weekend too and then some


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