Gestalt and the New Year
Sweep out twenty twenty-one with a mental broom.
Don’t let it be a harbinger of dissent and of doom.
Accept a new beginning. Set out looking for the light.
Don’t rate the whole dinner by your initial bite.
Life is a varied banquet of bitter, sweet and salt.
Those who succeed best at life fall in with its Gestalt.
We must season what is in our heads with what is in our hearts.
The whole of anything, it’s true, is greater than its parts.
Prompt words today are light, harbinger, beginning, dissent and dinner. The illustration was made using LunaPic. Start the year out right and try it out. It’s free!!! I like using the Art editor.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I like sweeping out 2021. Great use of the prompts
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Thanks, Lauren. Grab up your broom and join me.
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Don’t rate the whole dinner by your initial bite.
is a good line
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Thanks, Derrick. You have to have a sip of the wine as well. Right?
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Right
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The metaphors, the rhyme scheme, the creative use of the idea of Gestalt—a delightful read all in all! 😃
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Thanks, Sidney, for your generous comments.
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Yes, let’s sweep vigorously and get the old out!
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Beautifully said!❤️ Happy 2022!
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Well done, Judy. Happy New Year!
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2021certainly deserved to be swept out! Thanks for joining in with this delightful verse.
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Thanks, Paean…delighted to join you.
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You are welcome, Judy.
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Well, I just read your comment and had forgotten what you were commenting on so scrolled up and read the poem and I suddenly realized I had written it not to “preach to” others but to remind myself. So, I’m comforting myself and listening. Maybe that is usually why we write. Or at least why I do.
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It was certainly not “preachy”! It resonated with me. Of course most of our poems are a monologue but sometimes what we write is universal.
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Someone left a comment and I didn’t know which poem she was referring to, so I scrolled up and read this:
Gestalt and the New Year
Sweep out twenty twenty-one with a mental broom.
Don’t let it be a harbinger of dissent and of doom.
Accept a new beginning. Set out looking for the light.
Don’t rate the whole dinner by your initial bite.
Life is a varied banquet of bitter, sweet and salt.
Those who succeed best at life fall in with its Gestalt.
We must season what is in our heads with what is in our hearts.
The whole of anything, it’s true, is greater than its parts.
And I realized it was really good advice to myself!
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