Well, that's another New Year nicely over! Back to reality - debts and dieting!
Hello everybody.
Thanks sejvej - I think the sonnet we tried was a Shakespearian one - I think there are many other types.
I am going to work on a resolutions poem now.
Lin
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Forget the usual kind of plan
To make New Year the best I can,
It’s not giving up that’s in my mind,
Positive thinking I hope to find.
I know you’ll laugh and some may scorn,
That waking up on a cold grey morn,
With aches and pains and shaky hands,
Back muscles as tight as rubber bands,
Will put an end to my decision,
My optimistic outlook vision!

I’ll do my best to smile and grin,
No matter just what state I’m in,
I’ll find the woman I used to be,
And then self-doubt won’t bother me!
Already I’m quaking in my boots,
My resolution needs strong, thick roots,
But like a flower in the spring
I’ll stand firm and pleasure bring.

Please don’t try to burst my bubble,
Upset my plan or there’ll be trouble.
This positive Lin will have more clout,
At pompous officials she may shout,
No hoops to jump or forms to fill,
I’ll live my life to suit my will!

Just one more thing I want to do,
Impossible, which might be true.
I’ll try so hard to get this right,
I’ll persevere, I’ll really fight.
This year I will be fifty five,
I want to dance, I want to jive,
Foxtrot, salsa, waltz and swing
Unhindered by this PD thing!

Lin
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A Sonnet is of 14 lines....normaslly of 4, 6, and 4

it is written in the iambic pentameter or 10 syllables of 5/5

each 2 lines finish as a heroic couplet/rhyming couplet

I know someone that writes IN THAT STYLE ALL THe time but without the 14 line restriction

You have to use certain words to get the 'de dah de dahs' right. I don't get that bit.

Lin

Example ..............for Bluey


Bluey has P D and should be enough,
Settled his gambling and some other stuff.
Now hes got cancer, again so hes told,
Where is the justice for one that’s so bold.


Once on his shoulder the big C did grow,
Surgeons with scalpels cost plenty of dough.
They told our Bluey the tumour was gone,
Can you believe it, they all got it wrong.
You say to your God, it cannot be me?
Surely ive suffered my share before thee.


Take heart and spirit from Blueyes our friend,
Adverse conditions send us round the bend.
Make him a model to help our resolve,
Use his conviction or we might dissolve.

That is very upsetting and I am sorry. I don't know how you find
the words to express so accurately. I don't pray as regularly as I did - can it help?

Lin

Nature finds a wsay Lin........................


Ancients


Autumn is leaving, the outlook is cold.
The trees are all bare with nothing to hold
Floors of the forest unseen in an age
are covered in leaves so thick you can't gauge

This autumnal gown degrades to the earth.
to fertilise ground which feeds the rebirth.
The canopy crown, is up high above
the Giants below do cradle with love
Shoots that are growing beneath this great shade.
Grapple for sunlight but gradually fade

This library wood has seen many tales.
Fountains of knowledge of countless details.
Ramblers and lovers who walk down this path.
Initial the trunks and carve as they laugh.

I WON



Today I played golf, but not very well
I hooked all the balls, my partner will tell
My driving was poor, sometimes out of sight
The fairways were slim, the greens wouldn’t bite

Long game or short play, no matter of which
My irons were rusty, my putter a twitch
In woods and in fields my topflight did go
It was quite windy, I should have kept low
We hired a buggy of battery power
A good job we did, it started to shower

The last green was here , I looked at my line
A forty foot putt, or fifty was mine
I hit the ball firm and followed it through
It went in the hole, expletives they flew!!!!!!

Black Velvet and Rusty Nail

Called a Black Irish or Velvet to some,
Empty your pockets, it costs quite a sum.
Black as the nightsky and topped by a fizz,
Not for the raincoats that play in the quiz.

Guinness from Eire and Champers from France,
Mix it in England and them watch em dance.
Jigging with paddys that stand by the bar,
Smooching with froggys that sing Oh la la.

Made with a Whiskey from Scotland is best,
Maybe an Irish but leave all the rest.
No Jack and Danny or Jimmy the Beam,
These yankee Bourbons just pour in the stream.

Next is Dramboue, please handle with care,
Pour on the Whiskey as much as you dare.

Sometimes a Nightmare.....................

Some terrible pains are caused by PD
Arms are like Iron, no muscle to see.
Shake every morning, all day and all night
Tremors of P D make dressing a fright.

Buttons are tiny, won’t fit in the slot
when you have finished you’re sweaty and hot
Pull up your trousers or sometimes you don’t
pull says your noggin! Your hands say they won’t!
when pulling on socks its tricky extreme
Get to your limit, say sod it and scream

when tying a knot in your favoured tie
Its so frustrating its making you cry
The hardest to come is lacing up shoes
better with slip ons the next pair you choose