At dVerse Punam is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write about resolutions, offering a choice of five lines to that effect.
dVerse Poets – Poetics – Resolving to Resolve
The line I chose is – When you add something to the cupboard of life, subtract something.

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“All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes …. much heavier with each passing year.”
Bruce Springsteen
And So I Begin I finally cleaned out the spare room cupboard, filling some boxes I'd kept for a purpose, One I labelled "things undecided' which overflowed, the next was for items to keep which became two boxes, naturally there was one for the op shop which seemed to have more room in it than when I began, things went in and promptly came out again. Of course, you can imagine this all took some time, and while I was merrily sorting a mood of melancholy took hold of me, unrelated items before me triggered memories of people and places, missed opportunities, words spoken and unspoken, wrong turns, jangled relationships, seems that my cupboard of life is full, and a wisdom suggests that when you add something to the cupboard of life, subtract something, and so I begin, without resolution, to sort the weight of my life. Copyright 2023 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️