Apr 23, 2016 Original Poetry, Senryu, The Daily Post
In response to The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt: Disappointment
Do I Disappoint?
(Three Light-Hearted Senryu)
©April 23rd, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Do I disappoint?
Asks the sunflower of the sun –
Gentle light rains down.
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Do I disappoint?
Asks the child of her mother
(Love’s cocoon enfolds).
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Do I disappoint?
Asks a dog in mild disgrace –
Grinning tail melts stone.
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Apr 23, 2016 NaPoWriMo, Original Poetry, sonnet, Uncategorized
Curtain-Close
©April 23rd, 2016By Vijaya Sundaram
When the curtain falls, and it’s time to sleep
The long sleep, I’ll give thanks for life, and go
To where my spirit takes me, and you’ll know
‘Tis not the time to mourn – so, do not weep.
There are things I will toss, and things I’ll keep
Resentment and regret, these shall I throw
Disappointment will soon be next to go
Grief is harder, for it is far too deep
For tears or fare-thee-wells, with ties that bind
Us all across our flesh and blood and cell.
So do not cry. For I’ll emerge from night
(Though I shall miss all those I’ll leave behind)
When I step forth among the stars to dwell
In clouds of nebulae to rest in light.
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P.S. This is my VERY FIRST Petrarchan sonnet (and I tried my hand at sonnets as a form only since October of 2015)! Yay! Another form I finally tackled (and one I’d hitherto avoided, because I was worried I couldn’t do it)!
Petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. Also called Italian sonnet.
And finally, our prompt (optional, as always). Today, I challenge you to write a sonnet. Traditionally, sonnets are 14-line poems, with ten syllables per line, written in iambs (i.e., with a meter in which an unstressed syllable is followed by one stressed syllable, and so on). There are several traditional rhyme schemes, including the Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Shakespearean sonnets. But beyond the strictures of form, sonnets usually pose a question of a sort, explore the ideas raised by the question, and then come to a conclusion. In a way, they are essays written in verse! This means you can write a “sonnet” that doesn’t have meet all of the traditional formal elements, but still functions as a mini-essay of a sort. The main point is to keep your poem tight, not rangy, and to use the shorter confines of the form to fuel the poem’s energy. As Wordsworth put it, in a very formal sonnet indeed, “Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room.” Happy writing!
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