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Sonnet for a Fickle Foe

October 26, 2009
By johnb5992 SILVER, Parkland, Florida
johnb5992 SILVER, Parkland, Florida
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It's ironic, I think, the nature entailed,
The wrath endowed by only your presence;
Many jovial youth too soon curtailed,
Under reign of your dubious essence;

But yours is a reign so oft desired,
While kingdoms of yore fell slain by mankind;
Sown too deep are the delusions you've sired,
And too deep the unseemly woes we find;

Why then, I wonder, is your wrath incurred?
And from which veneer is your truth revealed?
For whose sake are many a youth interred?
And a demagogue so fondly revered?

Well perhaps our fondness for irony,
Has given life to you and you to me.


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Mckay ELITE said...
on Apr. 8 2013 at 4:21 pm
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
—Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, 1997
“Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
― Weihui Zhou

Very professional. I admire this sonnet. 

on Mar. 20 2013 at 5:02 am
SaphiraBrightscales DIAMOND, Islamabad, Other
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Favorite Quote:
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
When i was little/I used to point a chubby finger toward the dark sky/And ask my father/why some stars moved and others didn’t/He would laugh and explain that some were airplanes/I still wish on them today ~ Laugh-It-Out
The feathers of a crow are black/The ink of my pen is blacker/The pain of my heart is blackest~ Mckay
If love produced a blossom/I’d take it in my palm/What a blessing, the bright color!/How soothing, such a balm!/I’d keep a petal for my own/The rest, drop from my hands/For such a flower would multiply/And populate the lands~ thesilentraven
And I began to rival legends/Long entombed before my birth./But for all my much envied fame/The lust for more would not abate./The plaques and prizes with my name/Will, like all things, disintegrate. ~ TheEpic95 now known as Helena_Noel

Real cool vocab, and the last two lines: EPIC!

Milo! said...
on Mar. 14 2010 at 6:37 pm
I really love this. I really like how everyone can relate to this. I hope you keep writing, because this is great. You should check out some of my stuff. I think you would like it.