On New Year’s Resolutions

On New Year’s Resolutions

Do you make New Year’s resolutions?

Many people vow, as a new year begins, to stop destructive habits, beat addictions, begin healthy practices and start new personal disciplines. Health clubs and fitness centers enjoy increased membership enrollments, as folks sign up for exercise programs. Weight loss centers usually have a bump in admissions as well, as the old year closes and the new year opens.

Folks promise themselves (and others) all sorts of things on New Year’s Eve, or even New Year’s Day.

How long do New Year’s resolutions last?

Have you ever kept a New Year’s resolutions all year long? What was it? Did you quit smoking, lose a few pounds, exercise daily, finish a major project, beat a bad habit, get a new job, read some new books, keep in touch with friends or family members, finish an academic degree, stop swearing, get rid of clutter in your home, drive within the posted speed limit, or what?

Here’s my New Year’s resolution for the coming year. Perhaps these words will resound with you as well:

Foretaste

Limericked Spins As New Year Begins

My new resolution is tragically hip.

Don’t mean to sound sassy, nor prideful or flip.

Still, making a vow

Right here and right now

Seems somehow preemptive to taking a trip.

No wanderlust draws me to dangers without,

And tasty temptations delicious I doubt.

But catching up leaves

And writing on sleeves

May lead to dynamics or creative drought.

Today, as our calendars all are replaced,

A full resolution I make not in haste.

As new bells may chime

The passage of time,

I seek to make memories – to taste and not waste.

c2009 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“tragically hip”)

Meme Express (Invitation to Simply Snickers)

Monday Poetry Train (poem/s)

One Single Impression (“wanderlust”)

Simply Snickers (“bold,” “bounty” and “bright”)

Sunday Scribblings (“delicious”)

Weekend Wordsmith (“catch up”)

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All A-flurry

All A-flurry

Photo copyrighted by Nickers and Ink

Playing It Cool

The fairest fillies on the farm

May with the frost take no alarm.

They find it fine –

Design divine -

To laugh at winter’s chilly charm.

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Meme Express (Invitation to Simply Snickers)

Monday Poetry Train (poem/s)

Simply Snickers (“fair,” “fine” and “frost”)

Weekend Wordsmith (“laugh”)

Photo prompts:

Camera Critters (photo/s)

Odd Shots (photo/s – odd shots)

Scenic Sunday (photo/s)

Sunday Stills (photo/s)

Thursday Challenge (photo/s)

Watery Wednesday (photo/s)

Wordless Wednesday (photo/s)

Winning Ways

Poem - Unlimited energy, unbound promise and untapped potential, all wrapped up in a young Arabian horse.

By Linda Ann Nickerson

Christmas Trail Ride - a Rhymed Activity on the Nativity

When Mary went to Bethlehem, She rode atop an ass, but then, The trail was arduous and coarse; Perhaps she traveled on a horse.

By Linda Ann Nickerson

Love poetry? Check out Simply Snickers, a brand-new weekly poetry prompt. Try your hand with weekly prompts! Or, look into The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts.

Click here to visit Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink.

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Holiday Haiku Trio

Holiday Haikus

Do you like haiku poetry?
Do you write haikus?

A haiku contains 17 syllables in three lines (5-7-5). Technically, a lighthearted haiku is usually more correctly called a senryu. Of course, that may be mincing words or splitting hairs.

Holiday haiku poems are simple and fun. Why not write your own today?

Please leave a comment, so we can all enjoy your holiday haiku!

Dark Day

Dark Day - on the Winter Solstice(The Winter Solstice occurs in just over a week - a few days before Christmas.)

Night Shift

A Limericked Lark on December’s Dark

The solstice of winter may darken our mood.

Dear sun slips away, and the Yule nights intrude.

‘Mid holiday sport,

Our days become short.

We stand, most appalled, as our neighbors turn rude.

Brisk wind chills our souls as the season begins,

And icy barbs fall on us, needles and pins.

Still, weather may pale,

Regardless of gale,

Compared to the numbness deep under our skins.

However, as soon as the briefest day’s passed,

The hope of light grows in the midwinter blast.

Fair skies may appear

If we wait till next year.

‘Ere long may the promise bring joy unsurpassed.

Pillow Stealers

Pillow Stealers

“When we are unable

to find tranquility within ourselves,

it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Strange Bedfellows

Strange bedfellows though we may be,

These dears may snuggle up to me.

Let winter call

And snowflakes fall;

These creatures warm me by degree.

As storms may spin outside our doors,

The gales may spray their sternest roars.

I sleep straight through

With one or two

Pet pillow stealers on all fours.

c2009 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Image:

Little Red Riding Hood

By Gustav Dore

19^th Century

 

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“strange bedfellows”)

Friday Flash-55 (55 words)

Heads or Tails (“one” or “won”)

…In Other Words… (de La Rochefoucault quote)

Monday Poetry Train (poem/s)

Theme Thursday (“snow”)

Simply Snickers (“spin,” “spray” and “stern”)

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Honoring ... Pearl Harbor Day

Honoring ... Pearl Harbor Day

Today is December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day. May we never forget those who lost their lives in the Pacific on this date in 1941.

Here's my own tribute to those brave souls.

Pearl of Great Price

A Rhymed Encore on the Start of a War

A world at war,

From shore to shore,

Its fury to unfurl.

No turning back,

The first attack,

The Harbor known as Pearl.

A bay of beads,

Themselves the seeds,

The ships below the sea.

The sunken boats

Have cast their votes,

The cost dear to be free.

The combat flyers nailed the fleet,

As kamikazes threw their heat.

The desolation was complete,

The Harbor known as Pearl.

A bay of beads,

Themselves the seeds,

The ships below the sea.

The sunken boats

Have cast their votes,

The cost dear to be free.

The battleships, the bombs laid low;

Their masts waved to the deadly foe,

As battered bulks were sunk below

The Harbor known as Pearl.

A bay of beads,

Themselves the seeds,

The ships below the sea.

The sunken boats

Still cast their votes,

The cost dear to be free.

c2009 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Image:

Vintage newspaper

public domain

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