Resolute Corner

Hello Poetry Lovers

How are those New Year resolutions going? Now, be honest….

Clever and talented poet Trisha Broomfield has been just that, and has written a great piece about this very dilemma.

How many of us will blush with shame when we read these delightful words. Read on and see….

New Year’s Resolutions

Resolutions of the New Year’s kind

I’ll keep them easy in my mind.

I’ll give up chocolate, also tea

and coffee, I’ll be caffeine free. 

Alcohol will get the push,

a new teetotal me will wash

in only pure organic soap.

I’ll be filled with detoxed hope.

I’ll not buy biscuits, so won’t munch,

eat raw, exciting veg for lunch.

I’ll grill tofu, fish or chicken bits

then all my ‘too tight’ clothes will fit.

My hair will gleam, my skin will glow

I’ll have a secret you won’t know.

I’ll take up yoga, bend and stretch, 

but maybe won’t do all this yet.

The trifle has to be consumed,

on Boxing Day there wasn’t room,

and chocolates, still a deep filled box 

that has to go before detox.

It’s not that I don’t have the will,

or visualise when time is still

a slim attractive, healthy me,

I just hate the waste, you see.

©TB

Wasn’t that a great piece?! And very close to home! Thank you so much, Trisha. Please keep them coming.

Okay, I’ll leave you lot to sort out those resolutions (or lack of) and will be back with more poetry shenanigans real soon.

Thanks for tuning in, PL’s.