Resolutions For 2023

Seasons and weather in environs bring changes awe-filled, With new flora and fauna Mother Nature feels fulfilled; Each New Year is Pandora's Box with swarms of fresh issues, I know, yet, hope sticks beneath all like corporal tissues...! From my birth till date I savor the progress I have made, Could I have ever achieved this with no heavenly aid? Undertakings and accomplishments, like wishes and boons, Have embellished my constellations with endless full moons...! Around seas of tentativeness sand castles, I make, At the beginning of each year; some are strong; others shake; Goals I set; dreams I dream; place plans and codes like precious stones; Midst gems and pearls pebbles peep up too and capture their thrones...! Success and failures in life I find as coal and gold mixed, Both are like flesh and nail; though on none existence is fixed; Equilibrium in thoughts, words, and deeds like muck and mud, Make seasonal and perennial plants of wisdom bud...! Honesty, integrity, loyalty, humility, Kindness, compassion, selflessness, and equanimity; These I knit, like beads in the necklace of resolutions, When broke, I fixed it with the glue of patient solutions...! A bead bracelet, for this year, I am weaving with pure love - Love for creatures of lands and seas as shown by God above; Being his temple, to my body and soul I must care, With innocent smiles, his graces on my face I must bear...! Through musing and meditation to within, I must plunge, Sowing seeds of optimism, pessimism I must expunge; Though I do not lack charity, should I stop it ever? Like coconut and palm, this must grow in each endeavor...! Caring for all; sharing my wealth with them; I must extend, The realm of love and friendship; toward God, I must ascend; Death, dear guest, will knock on my door at any time, I know, Heart well set like a nomad, I must be ready to go...! 20 December 2022 Resolutions for 2023 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon