August seems to be the month around here that is brimming with things to celebrate. Six birthdays fill my calendar including my wife’s which fall on… today!
So I’ll ask you, what is your favorite thing to celebrate? Personal (birthday, anniversary…), National (Independence Day, Labor Day…), Global (Christmas, New Year’s Day…) Or maybe you can tell us how you celebrate! Any rituals or traditions attached? Give us a reason to raise our glass and join your festivities!
Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild 
Just celebrated my birthday suit. The best gift was two lips!! A celebratory kiss from the misses. And that’s all I needed.
CHARDONNAY LIPS
Two lips of wine
a celebratory kiss
is better than
than a thousand
bottles of Pinot Chardonnay
Benjamin Thomas
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Ah, yes; kisses sweeter than wine.
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Family Reunion
We gather in the summer sun
Arriving crumpled from the trip
And brushing off our jokes to quip
We’ve no holds barred to having fun
We spend our time while on the run
Surrounded by our families
We peel back time in memories
And look ahead with joy and hope
We know, with sisters, we can cope
In next two years, the time will flee
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I love this, especially the double edge of the last line.
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The Birthday
It was his first birthday
Party, and he was nineteen
Guests brought gifts, feasted
On favorites, and played
Games – but he did not
Take part, instead he
Napped – silly old cat
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GRIN-grin-grin
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We actually had a party for our cat when he turned 19. Figured it was worth celebrating even if he slept through the festivities.
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Good one, Candy!
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Celebrating Thanksgiving
Fall is a festival
of color and light.
Russet, copper, orange,
and gold–range of changing
leaves. Earlier sunsets–
crisp and cool–with scent
of apples, and start
of school, but not for me!
All that is a prelude
to November’s Thanksgiving.
When family can be together,
weather makes no difference
at all. Food arrayed
on the table is only a portion
of what is important–all of us
laughing at the same old stories,
feeling ever-present love.
(Happy Birthday to Walt’s wife!)
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I love the sheer warmth of this, encapsulated, for me, in “laughing at the same old stories.”
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Thanks, William.
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Yes, very warm. I feel the festivities.
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Thanks, Benjamin!
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Thanks Sara!
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ROSH HASHANAH
Apples
dipped in honey
start the celebration
as sweetness and light cover all.
Why not?
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Why not indeed.
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That sounds delicious!
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Every day I wake
I thank God I’m still alive
I celebrate life
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I like it Earl. Me too! God bless.
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Celebrating our anniversary. ❤
Before the Sheets Could Breathe
Our worries
tangled,
your heated
breath sighed,
and my fingers
sweat traced
condensation trails
when in a sudden
inhale,
I felt
my surging
rain of laughing
tears wash
us both away
in our cloud
of cotton.
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Congratulations, Patricia!
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Wow; this is a warming piece.
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ANOTHER DAY
I just want to celebrate another day of living.
Dodged too many “bullets” and cheated death
once to often. That I’m not in a coffin is a blessing.
Each day is a gift, joyous in the knowledge that
every life we touch and have touched will carry us
as a stain on their fabric. The present of my presence
is equally satisfying in the giving, for in it
I receive in return a hundred-fold! Truth be told,
I find cause to extol down to my very soul.
Another day in the life of this fool – too cool!
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This reminds me of pieces I used to see in an old rag called Ideals. Thanks for it.
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FIREWORKS
These big bangs
would fain rival stars
but each pop
has to stop
and shed luminescent fangs
somewhere short of Mars.
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What unique and visual descriptions, William…I enjoyed this!
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[…] Phoenix Rising – WHAT ARE WE CELEBRATING? […]
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Just a lil’ tanka…thank you, for inspiration, as always… :)’s
https://wordrustling.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/celebrating-stars/
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That is so nice; it reminds me of a time in Utah, many years ago, when I saw so many stars, the familiar constellations disappeared in their midst.
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Oh, wow…that’s a lot of stars, William…sigh…I love that kind of starry sky…seems close enough to touch if one gazes long enough! Thank you, for your thoughts my poetic friend. 🙂
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