Wishful Thinking

sonnet

 

 

Wishful thinking.

 

The old year’s coming to its end.

Few will be sad to see it go.

We greet the New Year as a friend

We live in hope but cannot know.

If the New Year will prove to be.

A year in which we can achieve.

Our cherished dreams successfully.

Though some have doubts most can believe.

Despite their past experience

of disappointments they have known

They set aside their common sense

and are sustained by faith alone.

It seems we all prefer to see.

The New Year optimistically.

 

Saturday, 26 December 2009

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Reviews

[R J Askew]

Gather the forces, bang the drum, ready everything ... we will advance into 2010 with the intention of winning, again and again, grasping success, driving on! No looking back. There are no obstacles, only challenges and opportunities. Hurrah! On we go! The words in your poem that catch my eye are friend/hope/achieve/successfully/believe/faith/optimistically ... that's exactly how I want to be. My only issue is with the title as I think it should be active thinking leading to action with nothing wishful about it. But I am a crazed optimist.

[Tina Kline]

Great sonnet. Perfect and the message is so true. It's better to be optimistic I think. I enjoyed your write.