Sonnet XXVI: Born for Disgrace
©21-16-01, Olan L. Smith
Your faithful followers, they praise lowliness.
They thrive in anger, your lies of tension
Fuck this! You handle disgrace with deftness?
Who's concerned about democracy's end?
Whose truth, a roguish sprite you have penned?
Alas, we scorn you, Unholy Satan.
Run to your cave, you'll say, "et tu Brutus!"
Day or night evil seeps from your coffin,
For auburn skin burns bright in Hell's buttress;
Even in virtue evil turns the coxswain
Toward Hell, follow, publish your own daftness.
Orange faces dot Hell's landscape, you're often
Escorted; there are many ways to Tartarus.
AN: This is an Italian sonnet with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA, CDCDCDCD, or an octave followed by a sestet structure. The rhyme is not pentameter we so often attribute to the English sonnet, because of Shakespeare. Italian sonnet form was created before pentameter was invented by the British, so to use it would be illogical. For me the most famous of none Shakespearian sonnets is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43, "How do I Love Thee."
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PoetryI am moving many of my singly published poems into collections, and in this collection will reside all my sonnets I have written, and will write in the future--I hope you enjoy. Love, peace, and freedom, Olan L. Smith aka Cotton Jones. (Cover credit...
