03-21-2013, 05:33 AM
(03-20-2013, 04:41 PM)softlyfalling Wrote: ...
Now, about the poem...I am truly enamored of this erudite wit. Sonnets are not easy
to master. Perhaps going beyond the studious and serious and into humor is testament to your skill.
Yes, I find writing sonnets, even the "de-evolved Shakespearean"
type (to quote the ever-picky Petrarchanista Leanne), is almost as
hard as capturing the spirit of haiku in English. But what made this
sonnet particularly difficult was that I decided to write it in
Shakespearian dialect (mainly because of the ironic legitimacy it
lends to puns and wordplay).
Never again!
That damn dialect is a virus; it creeps into anything and everything
you try to write. I have returned to my klepto-Imagist roots and
intend to stay there.
Ray
P.S. 'Studious' and 'serious' continue to elude me.
'Humor' is a testament to my childlike cynicism.
P.P.S. Your amore leaves me pathetically happy.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions