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
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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:
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>> 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,
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>>
>> Not as fun as Halvard's -- but is it a sonnet? If not, what must I do
>> to make it one?
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>> --
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>>
>> ~ SB | http://www.sbpoet.com | =^..^=
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