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Down (2)
Lying awake, but sleeping inside, revolving, revolving, around nothing.
Down (1)
Can’t move don’t wanna can’t think don’t wanna can’t feel don’t wanna but I do
Did We Win? (Complete)
The ball is in motion in the backfield the line holds, holds, holds, a man breaks through and rushes forward the ball flies into the air. The passer goes down in a tackle the yellow flag hits the ground, before … Continue reading
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Did We Win? (8)
The game goes on, and on and on and on. The time runs down, the whistles blow. One team slowly slinks away, their coach asked “What happened?” One team streams onto the field, their coach asked “How do you feel?” … Continue reading
Love Sestina (Final)
I suppose it’s only fitting, to write about love, on this week we’ve got going, up to Valentines day, but instead of the usual sonnet, I have tried the Sestina instead. But why the Sestina instead? It’s not really too … Continue reading
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Love Sestina (7)
But I’ve instead run out of time today, I rambled on about the fitness of the sonnet, and now I’m going to need to write another poem about love.
Ash Wednesday (1)
From dust we gather To toil and work on this earth And to dust returned
Love Sestina (6)
I suppose it was love. That was what I was going to talk about today. Not the silliness of the sonnet, but the wonder and beauty of love instead. For it is a topic more fitting.
Love Sestina (5)
I’m not entirely sure where it was going. For the life of my days, I thought I was bashing the sonnet, but I feel instead, that another topic was more fitting. Was it love?
Love Sestina (4)
So that all my days, are not bound by the pentameter of the sonnet, but are free form instead. Or yet form fitted, to some other style I truly love. But then, where the devil is this poem going?
