Modern Sonnet

By JamesF

Tue, 14 Oct 2014
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The rich are the foolish,

           the poor are the wise.

 

The quiche of life never so sweet

           when the bubble bursts on hope.

 

The client creeps into his armoured car

           and falls two thousand feet to his death.

 

Workers hobble into factories at dawn

           and lift each other, breaking their falls.

 

The sad banker swings his umbrella,

           trying to forget the latest interest rates.

 

Servers enter the workplace in laughter,

           full of stories from last night's party.

 

An illicit couple wake next to one another

           and hurry into yesterday's office clothes.

 

JRTF

14/10/14

Certificate 15
Poem

Comments

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Hi James. Just taken a Google crash-course to try to remember what I learned about sonnets 20 years ago. Thanks for that. No rhyme here. I feel that I'm still learning.

Parson Thru

Submitted by JamesF on

Yes, it's a modern sonnet - a deliberate decontruction of traditional forms, such as the Petrachan or Shakespearian sonnet form. Mine is 14 lines (length of a sonnet, normally in a single stanza) but broken into pairs to reflect a broken world, divided into two. Jegged edges like broken (perhaps dangerous) shards of glass. Always fun to experiment...