THE LENTINI CURSE
A moment please, as I try to think upon it
A number of rules to apply in fourteen lines
It seems that it could be one form of sonnet
Four lines per stanza that a quatrain defines
If paid by the word, such a pity it’s not billable
For the poetic accountant, a natural proclivity
The time cost is counting every damn syllable
It ends up as a dampener on one’s creativity
Please note there’s the petty rules of rhyme
And it must also end with a two line refrain
Some may even say that it’s a waste of time
I’m not too sure that I’ll write another again
So I’ll wrap it up now, at least for this session
As it really hampers my freedom of expression
Categories:
lentini, anxiety, fashion, poems, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
DYING AGAIN
Or
GIACOMO DA LENTINI’S DEBACLE**
I died yesterday.
Again.
. . . not the horrific
death of years before,
but the soft soul-shatter
of yesterday’s fantasy.
I never survived
the bloodied murders
of my last psyche deaths.
Dying, I only lived.
I only lived, painfully.
But this time,
A new state, a new life,
has eerily absorbed me.
Fritz Crytzer
** Giancomo Da Lentini, a famous Italian poet, invented the form, “sonnet” in Medieval Italy, in the 13th century. Although this poem does have 14 lines, it does not reflect the structures that contrive a “sonnet”. It is indeed, a debacle!
Categories:
lentini, death, divorce, repetition,
Form: Free verse
from sonetto tyrrennia da lentini
little poem fourteen lines
rhyme scheme strict
structure specific
too old for me
Categories:
lentini, education,
Form: I do not know?