Hi Michele,
A delightful read. Sorry I didn’t hit the reply button earlier! I love the
way the words are broken at the end of lines (and they then get to rhyme
together as well!) and then you slip a poem within the poem, a form within a
form! Japan meets Italy - not just at the World Cup - playful! Yeh, light
verse isn't slight verse - and it's got lotza craftiness and craft!
Bob
>From: Michèle * <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Sonnet on a sonnet
>Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 17:24:13 EDT
>
>David,
>Enjoyed your sonnet on a sonnet and was prompted to look out something I
>wrote a year ago - born out of frustration with the form at the time:
>
>I've had it with this sonnet lark - can't seem
>to get it right. My feet are not iam-
>bic and I find I can't sustain a theme.
>What can you write for fourteen lines? Some nam-
>by-pamby stuff that no one wants to read!
>
>Perhaps my talents lie out East - Japan
>could hold the key: three lines are all you need
>to write those pithy haiku - which don't scan.
>Yeah, way to go! Chuck sonnets in the bin.
>
>... Perhaps I'll start with 'See the lily pond'
>and then say 'Oops! Big frog has just jumped in'
>I'll follow that with 'Water's made a sound'.
>That's bound to get them going - just one flaw:
>I think I might have heard that one before!
>
>Michele
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