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My sonnet about writing sonnets was inspired by two of my favorite sonnets; click on the links if you wish to visit them to see what these two poets have written about this beautiful form ~ JW
Nuns Fret Not At Their Convent's Narrow Room - by William Wordsworth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52299/nuns-fret-not-at-their-convents-narrow-room
Inside This Little Room - by Andrea Dietrich
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/inside_this_little_room_208023
The sheet is blank, the pencil sharp. But still
no lightning bolt of creativity
lights up the night. No muse awakes my quill
with inspiration longed for patiently.
Just then, intriguing thoughts invade my mind
as Wordworth's sonnet lines jump off the shelf -
of convents, bees, and weavers. Soon I find,
inside this little room, it writes itself!
Why sonnets? is a question I have heard -
is it not difficult enough to paint
an image without forcing every word
into strict rhyme and metrical constraint?
Yet even artists choose, when they begin,
a canvas shape and size to paint within.
Written 15 Oct 2020
Copyright © John Watt | Year Posted 2020
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