Poetic Expression Challenges

January Challenges

For our first mini assignment for the year was about "resolutions".

~ What Resolution? ~

I have no resolution
for I cannot seem to keep
The promises I make myself
I never sow to reap.

They sneak up every Christmas
and leave me New Years' Eve
And I never even have the chance
to decide what they will be!

But New Years' resolutions
are really quite absurd
For they're the things we have all year
to keep true to our word.

Yet we never seem to notice
until the end of year
Just how much we've let it all slip by
life, dreams, goodwill and cheer.

So if I had a resolution
I wonder what it'd be,
A thousand ways to improve myself
or a holiday or three.

There are no resolutions
you are what you choose to be,
For life's too short for promises
we don't intend to keep!

© Christina
15th January, 2007

Our second mini assignment was to write a poem using all ten challenge words, in as few lines as possible.
true, overcome, enfolded, helpless, guards, emerald, gentle, morning, heart, followed

~ Schizophrenic ~

Gentle morning followed me
helpless from the night
An emerald heart enfolded in
guards of my inner plight....
True to their word the voices
I've fought to overcome
Reality or paranoia,
a world from which I run.

© Christina
15th January, 2007