Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 My Resolving For

A New Year's Resolution be

No promise and no polite lie.

It's become a punchline for me.

Maybe years ago I would try

Resolve and be of good intent,

But year by year, big dreams, short span,

And more out of shape I'd be bent.

And so just be a joke began.

Speaking of being out of shape,

Resolution to lose some weight

I'd make, then fail, then sour grape.

Now, joke punchline I contemplate.

Lose twenty pounds I resolved, so

Only twenty five pounds to go.