Friday, December 31, 2021

20211231.0430

Here it is, at last: the end.
More than a decade after I started this webspace, I feel it's done what it needed to do for me--and, I hope, for at least a few who have read what I have written here and have followed along with the changes that have taken place. I've gone from occasional notes to more detailed commentaries to bits of poetry that are likely not even as good as I fancy--and that's not a high bar that I fail to clear it. It's been a decent enough thing for me, and I appreciate having had the opportunity--but it's time to shift over, to let it end, to focus my attentions more narrowly so that I can do better work and not be spread around quite so much as I have been.
Thank you, dear readers, for sticking with me. If it's the case that you've liked what I've shown you here, I hope you'll come over to ElliottRWI.com, where I will continue to write. Admittedly, I think I've got a somewhat different voice there than I've had here, but I hope it's a better one.
And whether you do follow me or not, I hope the next year's better for you than this one!

Thursday, December 30, 2021

20211230.0430

A hopeful forward look there may
Yet be for some who greet this day
But many more have gone away
Than at this time last year
I do not look with happy eyes
For the coming year's surprise
And I will offer no surmise
For the response I fear
I know what I intend to do
I know what tasks I should see through
I know that I might well still rue
What may well happen here
There is no choice save to advance
Though it remains an awful chance
For those whose ragged feet must dance
Carry them to the clear

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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

20211229.0430

The cadence repeats itself
Neptunian fading in Holst's then-new way
But I will not echo the mystic in this
A firm cut-off coming rather than
A dwindling away

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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

20211228.0430

Both saddle and yoke are cast aside
The bit still irritates
And the grass gets caught on it all too easily
Tantalizing green closeness inaccessible

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Monday, December 27, 2021

20211227.0430

Images flicker over her face
Glazing her eyes
And I chafe at the sight for a moment
Before my own vision hazes
Moth to the lamp
Of projected pixels

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Sunday, December 26, 2021

20211226.0430

I have never studied the sweet science
Never been in trunks in the ring
Ringing others' bells and hearing my own rung
As another marks the minutes out
And I suppose I am the weaker for it
Less a man than I ought to be
That it was hoped I would be
For that and other reasons

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Saturday, December 25, 2021

20211225.0430

The armistice is signed for another season
But the battle will be said to start again
And always by those who want to think themselves attacked
Hoping that their entrenchment may find some justification
Although the few who rise against it are no army
Scattered ragtag band of partisans in the woods
Cut off from support except what they extort and steal
Although the same could be said for the fortified

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Friday, December 24, 2021

20211224.0430

Still she seeks out the delight
Promised by the coming night
That is marked by twinkling light
Set on trees and burning bright
And I find I cannot decry
What I know to be a lie
When I look and see her smile;
Let it last a little while

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Thursday, December 23, 2021

20211223.0430

Boreas may well still bluster
And I may struggle to muster
Strength to brace against the blast
As I have done in the past
But the day is brighter now
Than yesterday, and I, somehow,
Will force my way back through again
Not willing that this be the end

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

20211222.0430

The fires dwindle
The fuel that had fed them running low
And other sources of warmth and life beckon
Calling for them to huddle around
Who had before focused on the limber red tongues
Not whispering but not speaking loudly
Saying secrets yet long known

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