2010- new year, new poetry, and new attitude.

The great Peggy Lee once sang "if that's all there is my friends then let's keep dancing." I tend to agree with Ms. Lee. I think we might as well spend our time doing what we love as our eventual fate is inevitable. For me that means spending much of 2010 writing. It saves my ass. It frees me from crazy thoughts. It makes me, well, me.

So below is a petite, new poem to kick off my participation in the 2010 Poetry Challenge. I am just going to sit down at the keyboard and let most of these poems happen. I've spent far too much time editing and hand wringing over writing in the past so to just expel new works at a rapid and carefree rate will be something new for me. Check back daily to see the latest developments in this poetic experiment.

Happy New Year!

floating away- a blackberry created poem

We giant balloons
lumber like drunken buffoons
in holiday parades
on city avenues.
The crowd is amazed
at this silly parade
of fools like us
who should be floating away.

The bottles, the baggies,
the secret stashes
the broken hearts
are scattered like ashes.
We stay right now.
We stay today.
So the sadness and not us
Can be floating away.