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What Would Become: rondine
What would become of me without ambition,
a driving force to make some kind of mark,
to cast my feeble light out in the dark
and so improve my overall condition.
To otherwise behave suggests perdition,
a life led without purpose or benchmark.
What would become of me? Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, ambition, French verse forms, illusion, poetic forms, poverty, prosperity, purpose, rondine
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Spare Change: curtal sonnet
When you begin to want to make a change,
you may have no idea how to start.
In fact, your mind may feel lost and confused;
your friends may think you weird or just deranged,
and you’ll keep your own counsel, if you’re smart,
to keep yourself from being too abused. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, ambition, awareness, change, curtal sonnet, dreams, Gerard Manley Hopkins, poetic forms
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Change Your Mind
“I have an idea. I want to find what the average man thinks of it. Then when we’ve found out what he thinks of it, we’ll change his thinking.” A great quote from Vincent Price’s Champagne for Caesars. But is … Continue reading
The Legacy: a dizain
Let those you wish to sing your praise remember not your fabled deeds, nor cite your methods nor the ways you solved a problem, met a need. Reward like this is small, and leads one to perform for weak applause. … Continue reading
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Tagged ambition, ballade, destiny, dizain, fate, poetic forms, posterity, reputation
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