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STATS:AND POEM NOTE
Poem (1.)- Titled- Nights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze
Robert J. Lindley,
Sonnet, inspirational theme ( When Fate Allowed One Of The Four To Live On )
Syllables Per Line:10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10
Total # Syllables:140
Total # Words:::::108
Poem (2.)- Titled- When Man Lusts For All, Seeking All The More
Robert J. Lindley,
Sonnet, inspirational theme ( Black Curse, And Destruction That Such Greed Brings )
Syllables Per Line:10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10
Total # Syllables:140
Total # Words:::::108
Poem (3.)- Titled- Yet A Cure Within Light's Truth, May Be Found
Robert J. Lindley,
Sonnet, inspirational theme ( Memory And Sorrows It Sometimes Brings To Remind )
Per Line:10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10
Total # Syllables:140
Total # Words:::::108
Note:
Note: In my life, I have had three great friends each of which died
before the age of thirty-six. Two at age 32, one just two months shy
of age 35. All three were as wild as was I back then in our youth.
All took and raced down a wild, dark, joy seeking path- which as one
knows oft entails its many risks/dangers. All three sadly got into
heavy drug use, thus each one brought on their own premature demise.
This morn, I woke and remembered in my dream, their faces, their
laughs, the good times we once had. Deciding to write about them,
honor them -I chose the sonnet form with the self imposed restrictions
that each poem must be truthful to our past lives about death,
this world its darkness, its temptations and that if one but chose
Light over that of Darkness, one lives a far better and often a much
longer life. Dying before age 36... what a sad and dark rip!!
Thus decision to write triple sonnets (3 X 36 = 108)with each sonnet
being a total 108 words , written in ten syllable rhyming verses....
This was begun over three months ago- just finished the third sonnet
to complete the finished set today.
I hope you may enjoy this tho' it is a bit dark and about youthful death
- it also represents Life, Youth, Fate, and the mystery of why I survived
into old age (I am 65)and my three friends did not. As I was as wild as
they and also I also once raced down that dark path with same jubliant
and excessively foolish youthful glee...(!)(!)(!)
Stats on each poem:
Subject written on
( Three Lives, Three Sonnets, Three Friends, Fate's Dark Hand ),
A look back and thoughts on youth and death.
POEM TITLE 1. Nights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze
POEM TITLE 2. When Man Lusts For All, Seeking All The More
POEM TITLE 3. Yet A Cure Within Light's Truth, May Be Found