My husband's poetry

Category: sonnet

  • Dream Sonnet with Invisible Beats

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    cfblack
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    (if you are a form purist, read slowly and add invisible beats in your head) 4 am foggy, storm chases street light halos, uproots forest. Trees, like celery stalks drift slowly overhead, roots dancing free. Daylight comes, two mockingbirds pirouette among pansies, rise up on porch rail, fanned tail and wings show bands of bright…

  • Approximately Dream #3.14159

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    cfblack
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    last night I met with the gods of poetry in a dream they said I could ask them one question I thought for a bit and asked if we had only four fingers on each hand would sonnets be written in iambic tetrameter they shook their heads and replied for that I must ask Shakespeare…

  • chaos

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    cfblack
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    a poem about chaos written as a sonnet marched in ordered rhythm on five feet three quatrains, rear guard a couplet serried lines, chant strict ab/ab rhyme an argument in favor of chaos disproves itself with structure and form 11-4-20