Friday, June 19, 2009

Petrarchan Sonnet

The Petrarchan Sonnet form is an octave of ( a b b a a b b a ) then a sestet of ( c d c d c d ).

The old man said, “God hath given me fine
Health.” Rocking flaccidly back and forth on
His wooden handcrafted seat. He thereupon
Swallows the heart pills set beside the divan.

Did God stay mum surveying His un-kind
Creation? Or did it fester then dawn
On him that humans may require a frond,
To shield them from a world devoid of the divine?

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