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Youthful Anger Brought Hard Brutality

Youthful Anger Brought Hard Brutality

Gone are my days of great vitality
I wallow in ways of humanity
Hot rays are proof of my volcanity
My delays are full of profanity

Lonely nights sometimes comes insanity
These bad sights, a curse of urbanity
My plights come from sad, sad mentality
Found no rights on days of inanity

Great danger was losing morality
No stranger now to this reality
Youthful anger brought hard brutality
Game changer stopped a fatality

Now old age brings loathsome mundanity
Lost rage much needed formality

January 22nd, 2017

Form: Sonnet
10 syllables

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Heidi Sands

Date: 2/1/2017 10:26:00 AM

Well done! Congratulations :)

Daniel Turner

Date: 1/23/2017 8:44:00 AM

A monorhyme sonnet! I think, that, "youthful anger" got the best of a lot of us. I can do "mundane" it keeps me out of trouble:) Another well written sonnet, my friend.

Robert Lindley
Date: 1/23/2017 4:01:00 PM

Yes it does my friend. The more mundane , the more peaceful it is.. Yet youth is for adventure and exciting times of discovery! And that is why most of my mistakes and anger held the high ground back then.. lol

Sunlite Wanter

Date: 1/22/2017 6:42:00 PM

Oh, no, Robert, not you!

Robert Lindley
Date: 1/22/2017 6:58:00 PM

Once my friend, I was a wild mustang rampaging across the prairie. Youthful bravado and mistakes(primarily romantic ones) were my trademark.. Thankfully I survived and learned better.