Challenge
Write a poem, prose, or short story inspired by Shakespeare. Whether it be his love of love, or his twisted fantasies of death and loss, or all the above. Or maybe you see him and his work in another way. Explain it. Write it. Share it. Express it. Have fun!
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On the Death of Hamnet (or Hamlet’s Birth)
Sorrow born of love was muse and mistress
While flesh and blood and tear were ink of choice;
Both nourished mirror trees to stand as witness
And give a ghostly life eternal voice.
Truth composed of dreams and wishful thinking
Tempered by the holy light of day
Served as illness, tonic, and an inkling
That yearning one day soon would be allayed.
Haunted by a future nonexistent,
He filled the interlude with actors glad;
As if through heart and hope persistent,
A mortal chain would link the two comrades.
Immortality proved an ample lodge;
A worthy home after such deep mileage.