December 9th, 2009 - Chris O’Carroll:  The first sonnet I read was “Holiday Fare,” my tribute to It’s a Wonderful Life, a movie we watch every year at my extended family’s Christmas gathering. It’s quite a spectacle — a room full of smart, cynical, irreverent atheists with tears streaming down our cheeks as Frank Capra twangs our heartstrings. The second sonnet I read was “New Year’s Prophecies.” The title is pretty self-explanatory. Horace Walpole wrote, “This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” There’s no reason that good light verse can’t think and feel at the same time.

“Holiday Fare” appeared in the print journal The Deronda Review.

• Read Holiday Fare

• Read New Year’s Prophecies