Deep, beautiful, thoughtful, this is topflight, Sharon!
Judy
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From: "sharon brogan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:26 PM
Subject: I know this doesn't scan, but...
> ... 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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