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Timmy's Journal - 32. Italian Sonnets Poetry Prompt 10
The prompt: write one Italian Sonnet about a recent dream. Use the quatrains to paint the sights, sounds, and other senses of the dream in an unsentimental way. With the sestet, introduce the emotions of how the dream made you feel. Keep consistent 10-syllable lines.
Okay I wrote two, mainly because I realized after writing the first one that I'd messed it up by using the 'wrong' rhyming pattern. Oh well. Well it's not wrong, but it wasn't what AC's prompt asked for.
The first has a rhyme pattern of: a-b-b-a c-d-d-c e-f-e-f-e-f
Owned
On the edge of the bed he sat waiting
His gaze full of longing and fixed on me.
I am locked in place while he holds the key
His desire, like endless thirst needs slaking.
Fingers of steel grasp, my body is his
And he uses me for his own pleasure.
In climax he cries out; calls me Treasure
Says I've got what it takes for this biz.
He cannot think my bright tears are of joy
What he has done and wants is a horror
Each night he sends us like troops to deploy
We are sheep, none of us an explorer
Do as you are ordered—I'm a good boy
In the morning, he gets every dollar
The second has the prompt's pattern of: a-b-b-a; a-b-b-a; c-d-c-d-c-d.
Dream
In a field of flowers he stands forlorn
Mourning a lover taken far too soon
On the singing stone is carved a love rune
Disconsolate tears fall on cheeks timeworn.
He guards the sweet granite until the morn
Patiently waiting an answer in tune
And from his lover's spirit came a boon
Revealing the afterlife’s not lovelorn.
Oh, I wish for a love so strong and fine
With a man who wants no other but me
Our beating hearts rejoice and intertwine
Honesty, hope and joy will set us free
Walking hand in hand I know you are mine
But you are a dream—with me just briefly
Thanks to all of you who read, like and/or review my poetry, I appreciate it!
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