Hello, I'm new to the list so thought I would jump right in and post a
sonnet. I came across this list quite by chance this evening.
I have been a member of JISC for a number of years but mainly through my
work at a University in the Northwest. I do believe it used to be known as
MailBase but I may be wrong?
Well that's enough of my wild ramblings...on to the sonnet...
Songs of Love - Petrarchan Sonnet
Pray tell - if songs of love in rhyme can please,
and should we all be lost in sandune's dust
like thoughts in time, who then will write of lust?
In making haste, words fail and yet words tease.
What fools are we, to bend the form for ease
of fit? In tempered pattern's cut and thrust,
like pitchers placed where swords and daggers rust,
in life it can be so, for words can freeze.
In songs of love we write in rhyme to sway
the heart. If sung in time, for words are songs
of love as Muses too have loves to hold.
We think it game to scoff at other's ways
and yet in time they will forgive our wrongs,
as Zephyrs blow and speak in words untold.
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