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Sunday, April 23, 2017

Sonnet--When First We Met--National Poetry Month



This is an iambic pentameter sonnet I'm writing here--the BIG guns. So even though it's Sunday and people are around making noise and doing things, I'm of a mind to try it. So here goes. Oh. If you want to know how to do this devilishly difficult poetry form, be my guest. Learn how here. And anon, I shall at it:



WHEN FIRST WE MET

The first time ere I on you did cast sight
A duck you wore upon your Jonesian hat
I thought you certainly a Bedlamite 
And that put mental paid to that

When next upon you my eyes I did clap
Your bore upon your person knightly helm
It seemed a strange way maidenly ken to trap
I thought, "The man's sanity doth underwhelm."

But when we found ourselves in grottos dark
I could not wait to call upon your princely name
My fiance all that with jealousy did mark
I could not say my heart did feel the same.

Your arrow found unerring place within my heart
From thence our Murphy history took its start.
© 2017 by H. Linn Murphy

2 comments:

  1. Cute picture! You two make a nice couple. It might be fun to add a recording of you reading your sonnet here on your blog. I know I would like that! Good use of language/structure!

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  2. Hah. I don't know. I have a weird recording voice. Thank you for the complement, though.

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