The Essence of a Sonnet

So what can one expect next? Is it the complexity of words that draws us near? To delve deeper into the void of interminable text Would one have to first examine what to them is dear? What is in a word? Is it the sound one makes when vocalizing vocabulary? Or is it the emotion a word produces, such as the flight of a bird? This, is unknown, thus my motives are extraordinary To write poetry, is to live And all sonnets are beautiful, this, a preconceived notion Despite a piece’s theme, be it realistic or fictive Assuredly, sonnets remain as poetry in motion ‘Tis only my humble speculation That poetry will endure the most onerous tribulation