Attempting to repair: a word-list sonnet for Poetry in the ‘Boro -by- Robert Stone, 16 April 2023
Attempting to repair: a word-list sonnet for Poetry in the ‘Boro
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The truculent are galloping about
and launching extraordinary fights
disputing who or what is amply stout
and finally high-fiving seeming flights.
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The friendly calmly smile and walk abroad
and gladly seek to better what they see,
attempting to repair what they find flawed
and prompting the disputing to agree.
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We all from time to time into each camp
will be the hurter or the helper bound
by choices we have made that clearly stamp
our pith made up of pain and pleasure found.
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I tried my thoughts now to encapsulate
to dampen sparks of those concatenate.
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- Robert Stone, 16 April 2023
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Words selected at the previous meeting of Poetry in the “Boro, Murfreesboro, Tennessee:
launch - stout - encapsulate - gallop - high-five - concatenate - extraordinary - pith - truculent - finally
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Self Portrait started on Tuesday, still in progress. Ink line & Oil on wood., Christopher Comperry, 8 November 2012
Self Portrait started on Tuesday, still in progress. Ink line & Oil on wood., Christopher Comperry, 8 November 2012