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Tears

Thrills and spills grow a fine grain;
Explore the poise of profound hurts;
Ask for the will to bear with pain;
Reap your sure choice to purge all dirt;
Sense harshness sweet in dreary grounds.
Keep pain in mind as fury feeds;
Nude moments greet in measures sound;
One weary find can force feed need;
Watch worry string a cache of fears.
Fetch a sure form in ample strain;
Empty a fling that fumbles *****;
Assay the norm that fondles pain;
Reach a new deep where tears converge;
See how you weep in ghostly purge.




Leon Enriquez
19 April 2015
Singapore

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Thvia Shetley Date: 4/19/2015 7:40:00 PM I don't know why I have always been intimidated by sonnets. I need to write one. This is a fine piece of work, my friend. Login to Reply Leon Enriquez Date: 4/20/2015 5:54:00 AM Dear Thvia: Yes, a sonnet can seem so daunting. But try it still. After a few writes, you'll get the hang of it. A few hints. 1: Select your syllables per line. For me it's 4, 5 or 8. The formal is the 10- syllable iambic pentameter which is not easy. 2: Write 3 quatrains with rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, and a couplet of gg. That's 14 lines. Rhyme is an option. Try. It's OK to write a lousy poem than not to write at all. With practice, it becomes a bit better. All the best then. Thank you. Leon