Challenge
A Bit of a Throw Back
Write a poem in the style of a Shakespearean sonnet, with iambic pentameter (ten syllables per line, preferably altering stressed syllables but not necessary! rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG). could be about anything, and you could have multiple sonnets in one entry. this will be kind of a difficult challenge! tag me @tm101tm in the comments
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Water Bearer, on Scales, and Shoulder of Ram
Am I scripting this Horrorscope of mine?
with its time-warped masts orbiting full blast!
Or did Natal Stars steathily align?
and so inflate our Zodiacs as fast!?
...Must I become the water-bearer now...
and then...weighing draughts anyone can take
from, and welcome, as ladlefuls of “Ciao!”?
Am I myself the Haruspex who
through these entrails and barriers will graph
the course prescribed, still wondering lost, yet found
as a common, though Alien, space craft
who shall touchdown and infiltrate the ground?
...I’m not strong-enough to abdicate the task
...I draw water... why? cautiously I ask...