Short Petrarch Poems
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Petrarch the poet invented a sonnet
but to himself he kept it secret
Then in England a version came
for Surrey&Wyatt claimed his fame
Sonneteer Petrarch, with
Shakespeare, set the standards:
so little space - fourteen
short lines, each with just ten
syllables. Yet greats like
St. Vincent Millay weave
scripts pregnant with meaning.
[pleiades]
Written 21 Oct 2020
One
we go
Two three through
this life for all
they seek the Fifth column
they had a Sixth sense to
recompense the poor the weak impoverished Ones
Petrarch, Dickens, Marx, Harding-Davis, Riis, Mother Teresa,
In form rare to Multitudes, but not these souls,
Thanks to human kindness amidst the insanity-- Ah the Humanity!
I have never wrote a sonnet in my life
fourteen lines of iambic confusion
I’m not as poetically gifted
as Shakespeare or Petrarch
because pentameters and quatrains
are perfectly not my style
and too flat out antiquated for my liking
It’s rhyme schemes
always oppress me
line after line
stanza after stanza
as if I’m never allowed
to journey beyond
the black lines
while shading a picture
inside of a child’s coloring book
with a box of Crayola crayons
THE THIEF OF HEARTS
I am she who gathers the wind
‘And hunts the hare with the fox
And swims against the incoming tide’*--
Who are you with your jagged sword
To step into my reckless shadow?
Who are you to put your rough palms
Against the plans of my yearning heart?
Shattered behind you are the discarded souls
Of ten thousand tears—
Mine will not join theirs
Victoria Anderson-Throop ©
*2 lines quoted from remembered poem, French or Italian, possibly Petrarch(?)