Arlene Corwin writes

Welcoming 2019

When everything around is going fast to hell,

We owe it to ourselves to ring out every bell inside (ourselves)

Feel well inside, to ride it out

With cheer and hope,

Not saying ‘nope’ nor moping

In a state

Of negativity.

Let’s pop the cork of generosity; 

Philanthropy with common sense and insight,

Making right the wrongs not out- but inside.

Face the new year with old wisdoms.

Every culture has, knew, knows them

Through the sages of the ages.

Let us not to be harmed by karma’s laws.

Past causes always swallowed up by Time; 

Let’s sow new seeds as yet unsown 

For we, the generators

Are creators

And the future is unknown.

Out with scum, the humdrum, and the dumb

Caught up in day by day.

The busy-ness of nothingness

Is not for us.

As said before,

Let’s greet the year

With hope and cheer

Despite clear omens of the climes

And  sheer despair

Of scattering diaspora from native homelands,

And, and, and - and, and.

In between,

Let’s welcome in 

Twenty nineteen

Taking care

To make clean air

(for air is everywhere). 

Pop the Cork and Celebrate --  Lisa Kaiser