Making New Year's Resolutions

Making New Year's Resolutions

What part of yesterday

do I discard

to begin again?

With another chance

to begin again,

I'd re-sort the pieces

of my story

otherwise than they fell.

Call them

what they were not

then.

Turn them in my eye

to look out,

not in.

Hold them

to account for

reasons unexplained.

Feel them

as they held fast

let go.

What part of another year

do I need

to start anew?


To begin again

to take

another chance

Is chance enough

just to begin.

Copyright © 2009 Maureen E. Doallas. All Rights Reserved.

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I wrote this poem in response to L.L. Barkat's call to join the "Beginnings" writing project by crafting a vignette about "beginnings" or a poem that uses at its beginning, middle, or end some word associated with the New Year. That word could be "resolve", "resolution", "dream", or something entirely of one's choosing. Contributions to or links to others' posts for the project are here.

I also submitted this poem to Carry On Tuesday's prompt to use some or all of the following words from Joanna Fuch's "New Year's Reality Check": "Another year, another chance / To start our lives anew;. . ." The complete poem by Fuchs is here.