Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXXIV
This week, we tackle a poetic classic, the sonnet. Your sonnet can be Petrarchan, Shakespearean, or if you're particularly brave, you can try your hand at some other avant-garde variation. We recommend you read a few sonnets before attempting your own. We'll be looking for sophistication, originality, and beauty.
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May sings
bustling crowd of sparrows sing chanterelles
along to the beat of tiny green hands
on trees no longer brittle as the sap swells
the fine reaches and hidden aging bands
fighting seagulls wag tongues from grey beaks
a yobbish language a contrast in pink breaches
strut their Burgess Nadsat in pecks and squawks
that must end where roof territory reaches
a passing van is painted to entice
the favours of tourist and the dollar
a repeat distorted call to buy ice
creams and flakes that children follow
like a mob of birds . No discernible words
in this May day operetta a story of buds
bursting with colour and scales heard
from high pitch song to percussion thud
the season is alive it’s spark and ignition
the streets are bursting with springtime frisson