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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 78. September Sonnet
Just one sonnet. It has taken me a long time to complete this one. My ongoing thanks go to @AC Benus for his help in reading earlier drafts.
Can gullibility and ignorance
prove stronger than the storied armored hosts
which, like the ancient rat-borne pestilence,
left all the world too well supplied with ghosts?
And will unbridled avarice bring down
that liberty once promised in the seed
to everyone, regardless of renown,
or color, gender, origin or creed?
Can we not make a stand that’s no less brave
than by embattled heroes long extolled,
who matchless measures for our freedom gave
in muddy blasted field or trenches cold?
Make no mild, meek surrender to this blight,
but stand, linked arm in arm, and choose to fight.
If you feel moved to comment, I'd be glad to know what you think.
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