The name is Martin, fifty years of age
and I've a lovely wife with prophet's hair.
My résumé is like an empty page
and simple courses are the worst of mares.
To wonder all the time if I can bask
in joyous pride of parents, yes or nought.
To pass or not to pass; a question asked
so many times in private train of thoughts.
The teachers love to read the obsolete
to me and say the Day of Groundhogs starts.
If I can hear the Heart of Darkness beat,
we all can grasp the point of Pollock's art.
The freshest freshmen named Marie and Chad
are kids who scream to me: "Oh howdy, Dad!"
Author notes
L. 2: Salman Rushdie's The Prophet's Hair.
L. 11: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
L. 12: Jackson Pollock, a painter known for his "action painting" technique.
A contest entry
- Pre-Written Rhyme Anyone? No Trophies by piccola.
900 points, ended January 28, 29 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: "PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN" WORK ONLY. by Vera Rich.
490 points, ended June 15, 51 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Comments
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This is an interesting piece - though I do not understand the point of the material in the Author's Notes box. (Left over from a previous competition, perhaps?) However, I am a little worried about the rhymes. Certainly there are many traditions of poetry (indeed, I am myself deeply involved with two such) where provided the rhyming vowels are identical, the final consonants need not be. However, for the Shakespearean sonnet this is, strictly speaking, not the case, and the rhyme-pairs "nought/thought" and "starts"/art" have to be considered as deviations from the Shakespearean form. And for this competition I did ask for strict Shakespearean sonnets. Sorry!
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intrigueing write. Weaving other works into it is a nice touch thank you for entering
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