New Year and calories!

The year draws to a thankful end, its last days tipped with the spur of urgent celebration. Its slowing body grown fat with the weight of larded history; gorged with that endless conundrum of wanting more than we can have….. or even deserve. But now slim again with a New year’s hope some other feast brings gastronomic pleasure, and consumptive success, without exercise, without the stored calories of circumstance and failure that only serve fast-food into life’s constant begging bowl.

— professor, Jan 19, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: China/Sichuan/Chengdu, CHN

Favorite Poets: Yeats, Elliot, Auden, Keats, Shelley, Byron

Critiques

Proprietress o…

17 years 4 months ago

Professor,

a great personification of time! the idea is wonderful, as is the conversion of it. I am lookinng forward to further reads. respectfully, your Proprietress

professor

17 years 4 months ago

Thankyou Proprietress

It is perhaps both a personification of both time and our ability to break away from its inevitable passage and change our direction. I look forward to receiving further reviews. with best wishes Keith

infinite_dwarf

17 years 4 months ago

Keith

I think the first thing everyone thinks of when they hear 'New Years Resolution' is 'lose weight'. That's like the first one on most people's list. Good tribute to everyone's worst holiday fear - and nice to see you back again! ~Jess K. ---------------------------------------------------- -"Handle every situation like a dog: if you can't eat it, or screw it, piss on it and walk away!"

professor

17 years 4 months ago

Thanks Jess

Yes many of us get the lose weight resolution bug in the New Year. I was just at one of my sister's birthday party at the weekend and half the guests were on strict diets and there was a mountain of food and drink left...spoiled the whole atmosphere somehow...and no i was not one of them lol. Of course the kind of calories i was really referring to were a metaphor for the true lifestyle ones that make us take the easy fast food route in life and fail to embrace change and take on the leaner and more meaningful healthy diet which could lead to fulfillment....or something along those lines lol and thanks for welcoming me back. all the best Keith

poewriter58

17 years 4 months ago

Keith

So good to see you. Wow you haven't lost a step have you great wording Chrys

professor

17 years 4 months ago

Thanks Chrys

Yes hopefully being out here in the wilderness has not reduced me...who knows there might even be some improvement lol. Thanks for welcoming me back, I have missed you all. My best wishes Keith

Conect11

17 years 4 months ago

another intelligent write

but should we expect anything less? Of course not! Perhaps emotionally detached, (note: not disconnected)though this may have been your aim. I liked this, but the only issue I have is I sensed finality. In my humble opinion maybe you could have placed a line or two in that referred to this event being cyclical, that this new year with so much promise would soon also be that bloated creature in another 365 days. Ah, but then, without that there is that glaring thing: hope. Mark W. Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against these, there is no law!" My favorite verse(s) in the Bible

professor

17 years 4 months ago

Hi Mark

Yes you are right i could have spelled out the cyclicity and did think about it but in the end thought it was inherent in the fact that this is an annual resolution fest. And in another way I actually wanted to make it feel the way we all do when we make life changing resolutions...i.e. we believe that this year we will follow it through and break the cycle....so yes i wanted there to be that hope. Thanks for your thoughts as always. Best wishes Keith