It’s my honest wish all of you reading may have a powerful and serene new year in the practice of gratitude. May beauty abound to you!
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may we find a way
to silence the loud
obsessive thoughts
sons of fear to welcome
the ones shaped as wings
a conglomerate of lightness
feathers on strong muscles
to allow us to soar thorough
life’s beauty with our beaks
open wide
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- Poem from taken from “California Notebooks” my new book just released on Amazon.com
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annamosca 
Happy New Year from Virginia!
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Thank you 🙂 Happy New Year to you too Jeff!
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Happy New Year!
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Thank you Michelle 🙂 I appreciate your wish!
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You’re welcome
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Feliz año desde Australia ¡
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Gracias y feliz año a usted tambien Lalysoler 🙂
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Happy New Year. Love the poem 🙂
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Happy you like the poem Reili, thank you for letting me know and for the kind wishes! 😊
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One of my professors, James Bertolio, gave the class what I still consider one of the most difficult poem assignments: a toast. It was a form of which he was particularly fond, and had over the years crafted quick the “skill” in it. Yours is quite splendid toast. Apart from the rhythm and flow, the sentiment express does not shy away from the realities of life, just a great wedding toast will not shy away from the realities of sustaining a relationship over decades. Yet while doing so, the toast offers the hope of the speaker in such a way that captures the real possibility of overcoming the challenges and achieving something close to serenity or peace or intimacy, just as yours has done.
I love the notion you capture with image of feathers (wings) as “a conglomerate of lightness” – that united, and only by being united, have the strength to allow us to overcome the challenges, “…beaks / open wide”.
If you are interested, here is a link to Bertolino’s “Wedding Toast”:
http://kerouac.english.wwu.edu/~bertolino/JamesPoetryWeddingToast.htm
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wow, so grateful for your feedback that generates enthusiasm for new learning in me! I will check out the link you gave me for sure. Thank you 🙂
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Also found that James Bertolino had his own website. Turns out he is living on Whidbey Island in Washington state, where I was living for a year and half before moving out east in September. Go figure. 🙂
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Well, how lucky were you to have Bertolino as a teacher! I checked out the site and the Wedding Toast (and other Toasts too) and I was impressed. Thank you so much for pointing his work out to me, planning to read some more…
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Reblogged this on Elusive Trope and commented:
Below is a wonderful New Year poem using the kind of poem I would refer to as “a toast.” As I explain in the comment section, this was one of the most difficult poem assignments I was given by a professor. Anna Mosca’s poems is an exquisite example of a toast.
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I’m grateful and honored for my post to be used as an example for such difficult task, thank you!
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You are most welcome.
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Love it! beautiful poem and thank you so much for your good wishes. just gorgeous, you. wishing you only goodness and inspiration this year! XOX
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