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"I'm running into a new year," speaks to me. Every year it feels like I'm going faster and faster and the years are swallowed up in all that running and I sure hope that running is getting me in shape.

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Maya,

You have no idea how much joy you’ve brought to my life in 2024. I’ve learned so much from you. I feel a great sense of gratitude for CWC and the brilliant writers in the community, both in the poetry and the fiction sections. I’m awed by the visiting authors who’ve contributed to the world-class education you continue to provide.

Thank you for a great 2024. Looking forward to a wonderful 2025. Love you, Maya! 🫶🫶🫶

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Love you, Mary!!!! And thank you for everything you’ve brought to my life, too. 💛

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"Like ink and page

In this house join

Minting new coin."

Maybe if I try to write, it might be worth something.

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Maya, I’m creating a cento of my favorite lines. So much to relish today!

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I made a cento and didn't even know it.

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🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

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Phillip Larkin is one of my favorite poets. The poem you posted is simple but very true

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Mine too!

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These comments alone are worth the price of admission! Again, thank you for such insight and intuition for what speaks to us.

And the Larkin poem 👏🎶😊 he is a favorite… I think of the lines from the explosion poem: “the dead go on before us; they are sitting in Gods house in comfort, we shall see them face to face.” Are these not some of the most comforting clear words ever written?

Those of us who inhale poetry are the chosen ones 💟❤️‍🔥💟❤️‍🔥

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🫶🏼 to you, dear Susan.

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Thank you Maya for sharing this! I have become more and more attracted to poetry as a way of reflection. It’s been really centering in a way.

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That’s wonderful to hear!!!

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i've never read this larkin poem. it's incredible! thank you for sharing

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So glad you enjoyed it!!!!

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Lia Purpura’s poem is doing amazing things with the line breaks. Thanks for sharing these and other wonderful poems. Happy new year!

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Agreed!!! And you too!!!

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Thank you!

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“hurry a lion into the cage of music” - this Bei Dao poem is stunning! Happy New Year Maya!

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I love how New Eyes Each Year feels as though it possesses an alchemical quality through the entirety of the poem with the ending line punctuating that point:

Minting new coin.

And, extracting just some lines from some of the others:

From Burning the Old Year:

So much of any year is flammable,

An absence shouts, celebrates, leaves space.

From I am running into a new year:

It will be hard to let go/ of what I said to myself/ about myself/

From New Year:

Hurry a lion into a cage of music

Each and every moment is a shortcut

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Love your selection!

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Learning, from this post, the meaning of Auld Lang Syne made me weepy too. <3

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"A conductor tattooing darkness . . . '

Happy New Year, dear Maya.

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And to you, dearest. Was SO happy to see you the other day. xxx

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Thank you, Maya. All is well. 🥰

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So glad 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

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Philip Larkin and Lucille Clifton both strike a chord within me. I relish the new year, knowing each is better in its own wonder-filled way than those which came before. Thank you, Dear Maya, for adding to the goodness of 2024.

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Thank you, Kim. So much love.

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"each and every moment's a shortcut" "and now I have the rest of the day to make up for" --

Here we go!

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"Only the things I didn't do

crackle after the blazing dies." I am still dealing with chronic disease, using it as an excuse not to write (limited beliefs). I may have to do the first workshop after all.

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Please do. You’ve got this, Linnea!!!!

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