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New Year's Fear
by Ronald W. Hull → (All Poetry by Ronald W. Hull)
Saturday, January 4, 2020 Rated "G" by the Author.

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We are all hoping for a better new year. But in the back of our minds are always nagging fears that we should not let take over our good judgment. What is real and what is not? What should we really concentrate on to solve the problems facing us? Can we be happy? Yes. We are happiest when we are solving real problems and not jousting with windmills.

Size of Recent Wildfires Courtesy Statista.com New Year's Fear There is much to fear, in the upcoming year, as we contemplate, how it will all turn out. But the sky is not falling, Rhapsody’s trumpets aren’t calling, the angst of the alienated, is far from being near. So pick your favorite paranoia, and unravel your ego’s wants, the greatest fear is our behavior, and not from the highest mounts. Amazon, California And Australia, are burning like never before. Glaciers are calving all over the world, it's hard to even keep score. Nuclear annihilation is still on the board, and creeps ever higher each year. No amount of reconciliation and pullbacks, seems to slow the arms race's fear. Individuals are arming themselves, with the very best surveillance and, all kinds of ways to violently thwart attack. When tragedy comes, all seem to lack. If I were to pick the fear of the day, I would throw away political fear right away. I would think of global warming as the biggest threat, I would go to war with it with all the help I could get. So have a Happy New Year and let's all drink up. Whether your cup is half empty or half full, there's plenty of fear in our cup of good cheer, What's real and what's not will push or pull. Whatever ways the political mind will bend, the facts of science will always win in the end. Copyright 2020 © Ronald W. Hull 1/1/20 You can read and print this poem here at my website.
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Reviewed by Stephen Pollard

Reviewed on January 13, 2020

Very well written....There seems to be something grabbing you undivided attention almost everyday, if not every hour.

Reviewed by Mystic Rose

Reviewed on January 9, 2020

We are resilient souls dear Ron and we were born to overcome. Your poetry speaks volumes. May you continue to write great poetry such
as this, in the New Year to come. xo

Reviewed by John Domino

Reviewed on January 6, 2020

Yes, fear is a terrible thing. However, I am not afraid to die. Not worried about it at all. I am, however, concerned about the world we are leaving behind for our younger ones. A small example is I live on Indian Creek. Fifty years ago this creek was clear and teaming with fresh fish. Now it's so polluted you can die in the still parts from flesh eating bacteria. Most of the pollution is from Farmers pesticide run-off. It's downright disgusting. People have been taken ill from eating any fish from the creek now. The university now has a water solutions program degree aimed at solving the problem. Well, that's good but we never should have let this happen in the first place. It's sad. God bless...

Reviewed by Jane Noponen Perinacci

Reviewed on January 5, 2020

As usual you get the point across in your tactful way. We all see it happening around us. Here on the Great Lakes, we are losing shoreline. It's, like, "in your face!". Woe to those who are blinded by greed. Well, we all suffer due to it.

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Eva Pasco

I also happen to believe global warming is the number one threat to existence on this planet.

Reviewed by Michael Schafer

Reviewed on January 4, 2020

My biggest fear is that truth is getting harder and harder to find. There's so much misinformation and disinformation out there that's being spread by the cunning and the ignorant. The lines have been blurred, and we're all the worse for it.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Note to readers. The number one fear is the unexpected death or serious injury to a loved one or to oneself. Often overlooked and not feared, until it happens. The second most common cause of trauma, is probably car accidents. Far more shooting injuries and death occur in homes that have guns than happen in publicly covered ambushes and other concerns that many people seem to have. If you look at the chances of you being there when it happens, you are more likely to be hit by a bus crossing the street.

Financial loss that devastates, can come suddenly from loss of job, identity theft, gambling, drug addiction, and illness without proper insurance coverage.

Yes, the larger issues that the news covers are happening, but a sensible person looks at their own environment and then decides. Is my house sitting in the forest of beetle damaged dead trees? If the answer is, Yes? Then you have something to fear. One of my biggest concerns having experienced 42 inches of rain at my house during Harvey without getting wet, but almost, a house fire� Now corrected, is why do people continuously want to build next to the shore or in a floodplain?

Ron

Reviewed by Sandie May Joyce (Sandie Angel)

Times are changing and now even the churchgoer must arm themselves for safety of themselves and others. No one is safe anymore. You are either destroyed by nature, or by manpower from your enemies. Sad times.

Sandie

Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan

Sobering, powerful, and wise. Well said.

Rebecca

Reviewed by Mark Lichterman

Wonderful words and poem. Ron. however sometime one well intended armed person can prevent a mass tragedy and science, depending on how one looks at it and how one believes will not always win in the end. However, non the less, this is a wonderful poem.