Challenge Yourself
By Fox-Trot-9
23: Poet's Declaration
(Sonnet)
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
—Edgar Allen Poe
With every line I write, I write at odds
With the status quo of verses modernist,
By which all rhyme and meter is dismissed
As just the savage remnant of façades
Both false with needless ornaments of rhyme
And cryptic with the use of metaphors,
Expunging honored mores, closing the doors
On modes of self-expression in our time.
How can you claim to push the envelope
When you have yet to try your hand at rhyme
Or focused your attentions on the meter?
If poetry's your love, you mustn't cheat her
With rhymeless doggerel! Nothing sublime
Was ever writ in haste without the scope
Of trying something new, of breaking rules—
But only with the knowledge of the past
To guide our words, as we attempt to cast
Eternal truths with old and worn-out tools
Into a newer mold, a different shading
To the shadow of the past—traditional
Turned into something bright, original—
Courageous in the act of serenading!
(To be continued...)
A/N: When I wrote this last night, I originally intended this piece to be an Italian sonnet about the importance of traditional poetic forms, but then the words took me away and I ended up writing a "mirrored" variation of the Italian sonnet about trying new things with old traditional forms... I think I succeeded in that department! ( ^_^ )
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