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The Great Lies: curtal sonnet
When all at once the world decides to fail, on such and such a day, when pundits claim to clearly see our leaders in the ooze of mad careening chaos, and then rail, without a single scrap or crumb of … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, blame, curtal sonnet, decisions, hypocrisy, leadership, poetic forms
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Saturday’s Child: a curtal sonnet
This morning, when I rose from bed, the street was all abustle with the weekend’s chores. Fresh coffee brewed, I filled my favorite mug and sipping slowly, found the flavor sweet. The cat was chasing lizards ’round the floor; I … Continue reading
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Tagged curtal sonnet, daily poems, domestication, holidays, idleness, poetic forms, relaxation
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Thoughts on Armed Conflict: a curtal sonnet
If there exists a cause to take up arms, while breath survives some live to find it just, and seek to purify themselves in blood, forsaking for the fray their fields and farms to wage war on their brothers; for … Continue reading
Being Poetic
To be quoted by a thousand scholars, used as a prop for some hopeless causes, while earning enough to feed my old cat bringing in those endless stipend dollars; the rewards of my royalty clauses helping me to grow sassy, … Continue reading