Such Was My Luck
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Sonnet
Fourteen lines 10 syllables per line with a typical... abab cdcd efef gg rhyming scheme.
Lipogram
A lipogram is (a composition from which the writer systematically omits a certain letter or certain letters of the alphabet.), “Gadsby” by Ernest Vincent Wright is a whole novel of some 50.000 words written without a single letter “E” used.
Throughout my youth, up to about my fourth
birthday, I was a happy, playful boy.
War won, dad was back, and from that day forth
I was his to punish, his knockdown toy.
Pinocchio's wish was to cut his strings,
and thus, morph into a boy for a bit.
But as a boy, I'd wish for magic wings,
and that's as much wishing as I'll admit.
I'd shrink out of sight should dad run amok,
and if that didn't work, I'd start running.
But mostly I got caught, such was my luck,
for authority oft outflanks cunning.
Though my childhood was anything but fun
I didn't fight a war, thanks to dad's gun.
(Sonnet/Lipogram No “E”)
07/03/2020
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2020
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