How does one write a sonnet?
How does one write a sonnet I wonder?
I imagine it as a daunting task
My pride is quite sure to fall asunder
And well, frankly I am afraid to ask
What is an iambic pentameter?
Such a strange thing it really seems to me
It well and truly is a brain beater
And yet other poets write easily!
I hear it also needs a common theme
But that could well be very hard to do
I guess this shall remain a fever dream
It seems the only outcome is to lose
Why do I bother? I question a lot
Really the drivel I write is such rot
Fool
That damned fool walks about with an aura of despair
As well he should!
The nerve of him leaving the house with that hair.
Clutching a wimpy single rose, alone just like he
He makes his way on down the street
He's truly embarrassing to see
The rose was shoved back into his hands by a girl much above his station
A wise decision on her part
For he himself was the cause of his own frustration
For any fool should know that when a girl is yours,
yours and yours alone
YOU DON'T SLEEP WITH ANOTHER ONE INSIDE OF HER OWN HOME!
Forgotten
As I sit here and begin to think
(As my mind so often seems to want to do)
Once again
(and inevitably)
My thoughts turn toward you.
Oh how often I yearn and I long for a break!
For my overactive head, continuously,
causes my poor wretched heart to break!
A world once so populated and alive
Is now so empty and bare!
All because, for me, you are no longer there.
The sun has died and all warmth is gone;
Nature has been emptied, void of the birds and their song!
And the truth of it all still pains me so,
Because you forgot me a long long time ago.
Flight
I prefer to be amongst the stars and sky
Life is so easy way on high
With the twist of a wrist I soar above mountains and lakes
To be one with machine is all that it takes
I dive and roll with the birds at my side
My love for this I can not pretend to hide
Those below can never know
The utter joy this heaven brings me so