Thanks, Martin. Well, I secretly think a few of us poet types like to stir
just a little ... It's the rebellious child in us >g< So I call it sonnet
cos it's got 14 lines in a 6/8 polarity, and has an internal set of
reversals - but it ain't about love, is it, and the lines are raggedy, not
pentameter at all ...
Oh well, a bit of this, a bit of that
let's the mouse keep teasing the cat ...
Andrew
On 17/10/2007, Martin Dolan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew
>
> I've been out of town and away from e-mail, hence the delayed response.
> I'm sure the great sonnet discussion has moved on, but this is just to
> say I think this is a fine poem, but outside my (no doubt arbitrary)
> sonnet parameters.
>
> Martin
>
> andrew burke wrote:
> > Here's a recent one, Martin, which is further outside the traditional
> frame:
> >
> >
> > *A**n Upside-down Sonnet*
> >
> > * *
> >
> > * *
> >
> > 'I'll give you to the next passing Chinaman',
> >
> > my mother would say.
> >
> > It was the Fifties and such things were said
> >
> > without malice
> >
> > for there were few passing Chinamen
> >
> > in our home town.
> >
> >
> >
> > Fifty six years later I am
> >
> > an Australian man passing
> >
> > and Chinese kids look up at me
> >
> > without prejudice—a living
> >
> > breathing specimen
> >
> > of Western decadence,
> >
> > the Coca-Cola culture come
> >
> > flying over their wall.
> >
> >
> >
> > (As far as I know, Dorothy Hewett first did the upside down bit, but as
> I
> > was in the southern hemisphere, I thought upside down was appropriate
> ...)
> >
>
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Andrew
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