Welcome to the list, La Poetessa,(or just plain Mary, I note from your
website).
I admire anyone who can adhere so closely to the rules of the sonnet at
least in rhyme and metre. At least so it seems to my not-too-well attuned
ear. I do note that you have inverted occasionally to conform to the rigours
of the sonnet and find this entraps me, too.Others here will note it also, I
think.
Roger has pointed me to your website which I have read with interest and
have noted your penchant for form. Form can be a delightful challenge and
certainly develops the poetic skills that serve us in other ways when
released from the discipline of form, apart from which beauty does sometimes
appear clad in traditional robes.
You have a delicate poetic voice, LP. Welcome. Arthur.
From: "LaPoetessa" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 11:15 PM
Subject: Songs of Love - Petrarchan Sonnet
> 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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