Once more?

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 9

Today we were asked to write a sonnet based on or around love. I was inspired by Jill Alexander Essbaum’s simply titled Sonnet, which was given in the resource for the prompt. I like the way she drops the rhymes I to the middle of the line, sometimes twice. So I tried to follow that guide. Let me know if you think it works.

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To contemplate and cogitate, the loss

Of things we never owned, but had

With those who fate thrust on us, the bad

Ill-starred, I’ll-matched and givers of no toss?

T’hell with sour grapes? We are their loss!

Vanity makes for a lonesome bride,

Under gaslights bright, many have died

Cold death. No kiss of life, no shock jump

Start, can ever restart switched off hearts.

Isolation chamber grants sanctuary;

And growth. In the welding, leave a chink,

To let in light, to think. Of melded forms

Of hands n eyes, and smouldering entangled thighs,

And try, and cry “once more into the brink?”