Patterns

How about one of Fiorella's poems for a change of pace?


                 The Sonnet Sonnet
A sonnet is the clever use of rhyme
In patterns such as Petrarch might employ
Or Shakespeare's playful whimsy intertwine
For centuries of lovers to enjoy.
A sonnet is an unrelenting beat--
The blood's intrinsic pulse of weak and strong
That runs full-tilt for five iambic feet
In three times four plus two, a discipline of song.
A sonnet is a message of the heart,
Of Wadsworth's wonder, Milton's heavy hand,
Of Browning's love songs from a foreign land.
    While others seek the chessboard on a day,
    The sonnet is my choice of game to play