And now for something completely out of left field...

(Disclaimer: I have not written poety in for-ever, and even when I used to it was usually always structured because I never liked my free verse. This one just came to me, in the shower of all places.)

( Poem: 'The Better Part of Valour Is...' )

Dear Shakespeare,

Why couldn't you have just written boring, straightforward poems with conventional themes and imagery, no creativity, and no hint of imagination, brilliance, subtlety, ambiguity, or controversy?

Don't answer that.

No love until after this stupid craptastic sonnet essay is written and turned in,
Me

To all the Jews on my flist, Happy Yom Kippur ( Read more... )