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On 23/01/2008, Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sharon I like this a lot. Just dont tell people its a sonnet. Then they wont
> be able to start saying why it isnt. I think inev-itable works, too.
> cheers, - and hello to this list,
> Sally E
> Sally Evans
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> >
> > On 22/01/2008, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> ... I'm not sure what's allowed. I tried to respond to two prompts
> >> with one poem: write a sonnet, and write about the frailty of human
> >> effort:
> >>
> >> Ephemeral Sonnet
> >>
> >> We write on water, we poets. Most of
> >> us. Some write on sand, brief calligraphy
> >> for seagulls, shore-birds and the slow inev-
> >> itable tide. A few write to stain the sea,
> >>
> >> so intense, the color of their ink salts
> >> the words of their inheritors years
> >> beyond their own decline. It's not their fault
> >> that rules and ideologies emerge
> >>
> >> poem by innocent poem. Some writers
> >> strive to obscure the mysterious; some try
> >> to reveal the obvious. Some are rhymers;
> >> some are not. Some leap at the chance to fly.
> >>
> >> In hopes they will endure, some write their odes
> >> on stone. Stone is hard. But even stone erodes.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Not as fun as Halvard's -- but is it a sonnet? If not, what must I do
> >> to make it one?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> ~ SB | http://www.sbpoet.com | =^..^=
> >>
> >
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