Friday Writings - New Year's Resolutions

        HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

               Something Wrong (Bad)? 

            [Photo courtesy "V e r i z o n", 

              an Interloper ad on my blog] 

      Fix the Bad Wrong 

I used to think Resolutions  

Every year there'd come a group 

They'd feel bad about conduct bad 

Their conduct bad the year just passed 

So they'd resolve to do better 

Better the year just coming then 

Called them New Year's Resolutions 

I'd feel this was the thing to do 

One problem with me doing that 

Good young lad I was known to be 

Hadn't done anything bad wrong 

Nor missed anything right to do 

So why should I worry and fret 

Doing something I need not do 

From that early time on I don't 

I've resolved Resolutions not 

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I used to think Resolutions  

 Never again 

After I found out 

 How far away 

Monahans is from me

 Monahans Texas 

Is 510 miles from me 

 Here in Katy Texas 

 Resolutions are useless 

Useless as driving to Monahans 

 Because I don't know 

Don't know anyone there 

  And I don't know 

Anything I need to Resolve 

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    I'm not thinking 

 Resolutions anymore 

But if some crazy law 

 Made me do it 

I would Resolve to work  

 At least one puzzle each 

And every day next year 

I do that anyway, Sudoku

 An easy Resolution for me 

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 - Poem and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked for Prompting with Rommy at Friday Writings #8,  https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/search/label/Friday%20Writings?m=1 

 - Rommy would like us to write poetry or prose inspired by New Year’s Resolutions (your resolution, how much you love or loathe resolutions, the meaning of resolutions… It’s your choice).  

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Sunday Muse -- Another Journey

 HAPPY NEW YEAR !! 

 

Cuando Cubango; 
  Angola 

Never been to Angola 

Gonna go there now 

I've tired of Durban  

Enough is enough 

Going to Angola now 

Long way to Capetown 

Across Africa I'll drive 

Looks paved all the way 

Never been to Angola 

Maps, trusty GPS 

Got a new Navigator 

Knows just where to go 

[African Wildebeest

Photo mine, Jimmiehov, 2020]

Barefoot gal hitchhiking there 

Classmate reminded 

Barefoot, cutoffs too, so smart 

Barefoot gal she was my pal 

Differential equations 

Solving them so well 

Though we can't relive our past 

That we can in our minds 

Angola's a long way off 

Before we arrive 

Lots can happen on our path 

New friendship we could make 

[African Zebras Photo mine, 

Jimmiehov, 2020]

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photos, two, African Animals are Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved [click photos for larger size, click again for larger still.]

 - Photo Prompt, top, furnished by Carrie at The Sunday Muse  #192, http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/01/sunday-muse-192.html?m=1 

 - Although I've labeled this as Fiction much of it was "my life" including being in Africa twice and not yet visiting Angola.  The Barefoot classmate was also true but I never have had a female hitchhiker without Mrs Jim with me.

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