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Sonnets: To Metafilter

I started cranking out this Front Page Post
in poesy pioneered by Petrarch and
by Billy Shakes, tightened by Emily,
succumbed to cummings -- Their Words, their Will – Grand!

But of this FPP: "Hey, Where's the meat?"
(Weak links on MeFi conjure Peller's Rage
Amongst the MeFites -- Wait! I've found a treat!)
Iambic Pen-tuh-MEE-tur's wiki page!

And what's a post without youtubery?
Ah! here's a "Sonnet" that's Not Safe For Work.
But, lest I be accused of wankery:
Sev Snape's Sonnet. (Maybe he's not a jerk.)

And Now I'm Donne. I've sonnetized the Blue;
I'd love to read your comments. No Haiku!!
posted by not_on_display (16 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: while sonnets are great and all, you may have spent too much time on the phrasing and not enough time on the NEAT STUFF YOU FOUND ON THE WEB part. Might want to think about that and try it again? Seriously. I am serious. -- jessamyn



Am I just in a crabby mood tonight, or would this be a time to suggest Getting YOFB?
posted by tkolar at 7:11 PM on January 15, 2008


Thank you for not phrasing that in a haiku.
posted by not_on_display at 7:14 PM on January 15, 2008


A Short Poem

Tree.
Leaves.
posted by yhbc at 7:22 PM on January 15, 2008 [2 favorites]


Where did the tree go?
posted by not_on_display at 7:32 PM on January 15, 2008


I think this post will soon find out.

(sorry)
posted by UbuRoivas at 7:37 PM on January 15, 2008


Are you drunk?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 7:37 PM on January 15, 2008


I really hope this doesn't get deleted, but only because I imagine this took a long time and it would make me sad if all the energy was wasted.
posted by ORthey at 7:39 PM on January 15, 2008


Metafilter: all the energy was wasted
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:44 PM on January 15, 2008


In the immortal words of Tennyson:
"Here I sit
Broken hearted..."
posted by Floydd at 7:45 PM on January 15, 2008


Excellent!
posted by doctor_negative at 7:45 PM on January 15, 2008


Are you drunk?

I'm thinking this sounds more like a fat line and a bong hit, myself.
posted by ottereroticist at 7:49 PM on January 15, 2008 [1 favorite]


The moderator's axe
Like death waits to fall
This is the last post
posted by tkolar at 8:28 PM on January 15, 2008


Awesome post.

Of course, I haven't clicked any of the links yet.
posted by homunculus at 8:42 PM on January 15, 2008


Is this where they're handing out fat lines and bong hits?
posted by Item at 8:42 PM on January 15, 2008


My two minute sonnet:

The tragic waste of precious time
Which I am taking here tonight
To pen a useless piece of rhyme
When I could be setting things aright.

Sonnet, schmotte, a real damn waste.
Poetry has a greater reason.
We can quibble 'bout readers' taste
Or we can debate till the end of the season.

Frost says free verse lacks a net.
I say fuck him, say what you want.
He has a point, I guess,but yet,
I think it's like debating 'bout a font.

In the end, poetry should be deep:
More than blogging, less than sleep.
posted by kozad at 8:43 PM on January 15, 2008 [1 favorite]


I hate to pile, lest towers teeter,
But several lines are lacking meter.
posted by The White Hat at 9:03 PM on January 15, 2008


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