The Sonnet Form

Folks say the sonnet form is out of date.

I cannot say that I myself agree.

Though modern poets' verse is often free

of form or even simple rhyme of late.

 

Yet here and there we find occasionally,

a Cummings or a Parker who would state

their sentiments of love or hope or hate

within the sonnet form most succinctly.

 

Don’t you agree that it’s a noble trait?

To so constrain yourself when desperately

you seek to share the pure philosophy

within your heart to which all men relate?

 

If all this talk of sonnets makes you weak.

I still believe it’s how most people speak.

Louis William Rose

February 17, 2002

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