Late forties 80th ‘tween Lex and Third
Winning The War Within is a collection of sonnets written precisely in Shakespearean iambic pentameter but minus punctuation. The sonnets are a progressive poetic autobiography.
From Growing Up, the first section of the collection.
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Late forties 80th ‘tween Lex and Third
Fruit wagons coal chutes All Souls sunlight sweet
Hall monsters third floor window hurdy gurd’
Tossed pennies wrapped in paper on the street
Bologna snacks at Mr. Popper’s shop
The Harlem-bound El rumbling overhead
No tickie gets no shirtie from Sam Hop
Upon such snapshots memories are fed
We moved away when I was five years old
The loss I tossed off then now seems so deep
The trails I try to follow are so cold
I wonder what it is I cannot keep
Then turn and watch thought castles Nietzsche made
Slip by slip way slip down the slope and fade
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Stephen C. Rose has written a number of books (Fiction/Non-fiction). You can tweet him here.
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