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On Fertilizer: heroic sonnet
There is far too much bullshit in the world:
we spent our time so frivolously, in vain,
imagining the great flag we’ve unfurled
will leave the battlefield whole and unstained,
its edges still unraveled, pure, uncurled,
and with it, all our honor, in the main,
left un-besmirched. Our enemies, those churls,
will die in ignobility and pain. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, belief, bullshit, daily poems, heroic couplet, heroic sonnet, heroics, Italian quatrain, poetic forms, power, victory
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Not So Simple: heroic sonnet
How simple it seems to be born again: to never reach the stage of an adult, but each time that you feel a growing pain, to plead no contest and avoid the fault, accepting being only just a child with … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, adulthood, childhood, heroic sonnet, heroic stanza, poetic forms, redemption, responsibility, Sicilian octave, Sicilian quatrain
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