Tuesday, February 07, 2006

oh no, again?

i have struggled all my writing life to avoid being put in a box
wrapped up neatly and packed off you might say
i rebelled against metre, i rebelled against rhyme
i even rebelled against writing in a line
but powers the great they have the final word
and a SONNET, good mama is what they decreed
that my mind should wrestle with
my brain turn to mush.
BUT audacious and wily as ever i was
i hem and i haw and i put in a clause
i'll write you a SONNET, good men, i say
but rhyme, no they won't, good men, no way
unmetered and rambly my lines will be
and then my SONNET will flow free.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

too good...am proud of ya :D this thing doesnt le me leave a name...weird....uknowho

anup.777 said...

I rushed over as soon as I heard the news .... but I'm only a freelance poet and not a professional one ... I didn't even know what a sonnet was until I looked it up right now ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet

If I knew anything on meters and rhyme schemes, I would've helped out ...

But, I know that you can do anything! ... even rhyme as required for a sonnet ... All the very best ...

As for a subject to base it on ... how about the downfall of a poet smitten with love ... his journey to the depths of hell ... his resurrection ... if u don't write on this .,.. I think I will ... :)

All da Best!

Φ said...

Medz thanks for kind words. It means so much to hear from you. This is a wonderful work..btw what is it named as .. :)

These days I find this very typical in your posts.. you start em with NO caps, highlighting only as you feel like.. any specific reason..jus curious. It renders certain effect.

D'yer Mak'er said...

brilliantly brilliant!!

p.s. i never got to know why actually i like sonnets so much... maybe coz i feel life is so much like a sonnet... atleast mine... no matter it rhymes or not... it goes on n' on... n' then it stops... just like that!... without much of an agenda.

but honest i shall be... if this thing is gettin onto somethin like i liked "your" sonnet coz i like "sonnets" in general will be so wrong... for even if i never liked sonnets... i'd have still liked this one..particularly..

"BUT audacious and wily as ever i was
i hem and i haw and i put in a clause"

: M : said...

@ anon- i have a feeling this is tanima..yeah?

: M : said...

@ anup..rushed over as soon as u heard..lol...wat a crisis innit!!! BTW i did write a sonnet- modelled on the lines of this one..my poetry tutor features prominiently in it...hope he will be tickled pink!!!!

: M : said...

@ vinxie- yeahcause i write my psots directly onto blogger its much more reliable than rediff that way.also, i find caps and punctuation restricting as well as rhyme et al ;)..and yeah ur last pest was good work buddy boy ;)

: M : said...

@ d'yer.. (blush) thanks..although my fiction tutor tells me my prose has a sonnet like feel to it..maybe im wedding poetry and prose together in a way that works for me