Blog160:
New Year's Eve!
Boom! Crack!
Rattattat!
Firecrackers'
popping there and here
Crowd
neighborhoods with litter and foggy smoke
Soon as
dusk turn to early evening darkness ...
New
Year's Eve!
Streets
everywhere come alive and merriment begins
Festive
lights compete in color and brightness
While
drum roll sporadically reverberates
Its piped
sounds through wall crevices and cracks ...
New
Year's Eve!
Outside
... excited teen boys led by fathers and friends
Brave
their first attempt at lighting fireworks
While
young and old women protect the very young
From
getting close to the splintering, cracking fires ...
New
Year's Eve!
Equipped
with their whistles and paper-made blowers
Children
push air in their noisemakers as hard as they can
Mixing up
noises with tricycle drivers' horn tooting
As they
snake in and find their riders' ways to homes ...
New
Year's Eve!
Inside
the house, Mother calmly boils water
For tea
and chocolate milk that will be served
Along
with native cakes, pancit and cheese sandwiches
In yet
another Media Noche meal this last day of 2012 ...
Welcome,
2013!
New
Year's Day pops in at 12:01 midnight
Amidst
second by second counting ...10-9-8-7-6-5-4 ...
And
cheery exchanges of best wishes and hopes
Juxtaposed
with nostalgic singing of 'Auld Lang Syne' ...
Welcome,
2013!
Whatever
unfolds - challenges or triumphs
Whatever
comes our way - tribulations or joys
Whatever
paths we step in - smooth or rough
2013 makes its entry into our lives,
ready or not!
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