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Sue's Crazy Day -The Funom Sonnet

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Sue sat on her big bed crying, her cat and dog lay peacefully on the rug. Her son lying to her was sad. Thankfully he is not a bad boy. Sighing She did say to her dad sadly her son was an ass! Smiling she had a cup of tea quickly. Sue was all on her own now - she was fed up of men! Wow Her old man was a sot - Somehow he had got all the tax money And bet it all on a bunny It was not at all funny! The Funom's Sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line made up of 7/8 syllabic word count. The rhyme pattern is in this form The major unique feature of this new kind of sonnet is its words. Apart from the rhyming words, all other words in this poem should consist of not more than three letters a-b-a-b,a-b-a-b,c-c-c,d-d-d. Contest The Funom's Sonnet Sponsored by Funom Makama 03~27~16

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Poet Destroyer A

Date: 4/28/2016 12:43:00 AM

Jan, Congratulations on your "FUNOM'S SONNET win." LINDA

Jan Allison
Date: 4/28/2016 1:56:00 AM

I don't consider it a win' but at least it got on the winner's page:-) hugs Jan xx

Eve Roper

Date: 4/21/2016 4:47:00 PM

Great write, Jan, congratulations on your win!

Jan Allison
Date: 4/21/2016 4:50:00 PM

Thanks Eve I'm happy to appear on the winners list:-) hugs jan xx

Dr. Upma A. Sharma

Date: 4/20/2016 10:57:00 PM

Congrats on ur awesome winning write Jan..

Jan Allison
Date: 4/21/2016 2:17:00 AM

Thanks Dr Sharma:-) hugs Jan xx

Lu Loo

Date: 4/20/2016 1:26:00 PM

Jan!!! Cute and clever and silly! I LOVE BUNNIES!! You stole my heart with this one lady :)-luloo

Jan Allison
Date: 4/21/2016 2:17:00 AM

Shame I didn't steal the sponsors heart lol:-( hugs Jan xx

Funom Makama

Date: 4/20/2016 12:46:00 PM

Congratulations on your win and thank you very much for giving this very fine entry. The contest had lots of wonderful entries and grading them was a hard nut to crack, nevertheless you came out tops.. Kudos to you and thank you so much once again.

Jan Allison
Date: 4/21/2016 2:16:00 AM

Thanks Funom:-) hugs Jan xx

Janis Thompson

Date: 4/10/2016 3:29:00 PM

very creative, well written

Jan Allison
Date: 4/10/2016 3:31:00 PM

Thanks Janis:-)

Funom Makama

Date: 3/31/2016 9:07:00 AM

What an outstanding entry Allison. Thank you so much for this great piece. This is a top 7 for me and good luck in the contest

Jan Allison
Date: 3/31/2016 9:16:00 AM

Thanks Funom you set us quite a challenge:-) hugs jan xx

Timothy Hicks

Date: 3/30/2016 12:21:00 AM

The picture wouldn't load ... now I can see it ... perhaps my mind is in a weird place when "bunny" makes me think of "gold digger" ... a bit embarrassing there. This was funny.

Jan Allison
Date: 3/30/2016 4:26:00 AM

LOL:-) I guess she could have been a bunny girl - great your imagination lead you to this idea:-) hugs Jan xx

Timothy Hicks

Date: 3/30/2016 12:18:00 AM

"bet it all on a bunny" ... sounds like a gold-digger to me (unless this has something to do with Easter, of which I'm majorly misinterpreting ... !) Funom's Sonnet challenge both intrigues and intimidates me, Jan. Silent's single-syllable word challenge with Black and White was hard enough, but three LETTERS max? Yikes. Still you did a good job with the difficult restrictions, and I liked the second half best.

Jan Allison
Date: 3/30/2016 4:25:00 AM

I found it a real challenge Timothy - glad you like the ending :-) to me that is the best part but it was so difficult with the syllable restriction to make much sense that is why I posted it as nonesense lol:-) hugs Jan xx

Vera Duggan

Date: 3/28/2016 7:31:00 PM

Hi Jan, how are you, this was a lovely sonnet, Good luck in the contest and take care....Vera

Jan Allison
Date: 3/28/2016 10:52:00 PM

Thanks so much Vera - lovely to see you:-) Have had a few health issues but generally am fine:-) hugs Jan xx

Suzanne Delaney

Date: 3/28/2016 2:54:00 PM

Wow Jan: I'm impressed. Love the bunny pic. Was that an Easter event? Lol SuZ

Jan Allison
Date: 3/28/2016 3:04:00 PM

Just pic I found on the web that seemed to go with the poem - it was a struggle to write with such a restriction on the syllables so I was pleased that people seem to like it:-) hugs Jan xx

Constance La France

Date: 3/28/2016 8:34:00 AM

Jan this is sadly charming and quite funny, I love it 7 ~

Jan Allison
Date: 3/28/2016 8:42:00 AM

Thanks BW it was a tough form to follow:-) hugs jan xx

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/27/2016 6:51:00 PM

you did a good job with a difficult form, Jan. The last part turned out the best of all.

Jan Allison
Date: 3/27/2016 9:58:00 PM

Yes I agree Andrea - managed to get my trademark humour in there lol- it is a struggle to get a decent flow with just 3 letter words but I managed the challenge:-) hugs Jan xx

Tim Smith

Date: 3/27/2016 6:24:00 PM

lol....hope it was a quick bunny and didn't die

Jan Allison
Date: 3/27/2016 6:25:00 PM

LOL:-) hugs Jan xx

Arthur Vaso

Date: 3/27/2016 3:55:00 PM

I bet this is a winner!!! :)

Jan Allison
Date: 3/27/2016 4:02:00 PM

The bunny sure wasn't lol:-) hugs jan xx

J. Tudor

Date: 3/27/2016 3:15:00 PM

Though losing money on a bunny probably wasn't funny, this tale of a funny bunny was. Well done. : ) J.

Jan Allison
Date: 3/27/2016 3:16:00 PM

Thank J Tudor - it was quite a challenge to write this and get it to make some sort of sense with it being restricted to 3 letter words:-) hugs Jan xx