A New Dawn

The meter—the castle,
  the rhyme in the moat

The battlements weary,
  all meaning afloat

The knights at the ready,
  swords sharpened and drawn

Each piercing a sonnet
—each flag a new dawn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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