Poems that you love

[rayheinrich]

It's exactly what I want from a sonnet -- at the end of the day, whatever structure you use, 14 lines do not a sonnet make: this does.

Yes, so true. This sonnet says it well.


Off topic comments on the military and on sonnets:

Over here in the U.S. they're are hailed as heroes and the politicians
make great use of them. It's all lip service; they are so poorly paid
they qualify for food stamps. And proper medical care, especially
psychological, is routinely denied them.

And yes, the structure of content/meaning in a poetic form,
which is the most important part of its definition, is habitually
ignored and it becomes defined only by its mechanical
specifications. Hate that! (Haiku is another example.)

Someday I would like to take ten years off and actually
learn to write sonnets. (Probably wouldn't be enough.)