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Post  mikeschultz Wed Feb 08 2012, 17:20

shout the people cry for your art
terse succinct and vivid
as each word each syllable carved
from its English diction
steps to the fore holding message
as hostage to its form
another sonnet on a page
that somehow had been torn

do we require rhyme and time
meter and syllables
no of course not but they are fine
as exotic spices
choose your words well and write them once
for our times own penance


Michael Schultz © February 8, 2012 (1807)
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