RESOLUTIONS SANS SOLUTIONS by Ken Gosse WELL DONE! Poetry

RESOLUTIONS SANS SOLUTIONS by Ken Gosse

Now that we’ve sung Auld Lang Syne

when time ran out last year,

another New Year’s Day is here,

so Helan Går to New Year’s star,

let’s raise your glass to some new lass

and hope the New Lang will be fine.

Perhaps it’s true, the more things change,

all the more they stay the same.

What’s new will soon be old and lame.

Resolutions aren’t solutions

we’ll remember from December.

Out of focus, out of range.

Still, it’s a night to be well met

and it’s OK to shed a tear,

or better yet, to raise a cheer

in hopes that we will finally

create good ploy for next year’s joy—

yet how soon we’ll forget.

Ken Gosse usually writes metric, rhymed verse with whimsy and humor. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, since then in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Pure Slush, Home Planet News Online, WELL READ Magazine, and others. Raised in the Chicago, Illinois, suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, over twenty-five years with rescue cats and dogs underfoot.