Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXXIV
This week, we tackle a poetic classic, the sonnet. Your sonnet can be Petrarchan, Shakespearean, or if you're particularly brave, you can try your hand at some other avant-garde variation. We recommend you read a few sonnets before attempting your own. We'll be looking for sophistication, originality, and beauty.
Suzy #1
My eyes do witness beauty from afar.
Her countenance bright as the morning sun.
Should God bestow such beauty on a star,
or hide it from creation's face unsung?
Her eyes bare not the mark of vanity,
nor does she move her members with such heir,
to tempt the eyes of men for them to see,
the deep and gentle richness of her wares.
With purest heart and meekness of her speech,
she yet knows not the power that she holds.
For in her dwells the love that I would seek,
if only I could dare to be so bold.
I pray this light may shine upon my face,
for me to know the joy of her embrace.
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