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A Sonnet’s Beat
A Sonnet’s Beat
A Sonnet’s Beat
The world is full of poets who, nevershort of word or rhyme, contrive to write each
other out. They walk their walks in verse dance-steps,
their breath a crush of similes,
their themes on cuff-linked sleeves held
high. This metaphor for man, this mass beyond a
verb, incarnates the noun that,
lost in Eden’s ground, wants more than
all or self, or a heart in time with a sonnet’s beat.
© 2010, Deon Marcus
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Publisher: First published on PIW,
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A Sonnet’s Beat
The world is full of poets who, nevershort of word or rhyme, contrive to write each
other out. They walk their walks in verse dance-steps,
their breath a crush of similes,
their themes on cuff-linked sleeves held
high. This metaphor for man, this mass beyond a
verb, incarnates the noun that,
lost in Eden’s ground, wants more than
all or self, or a heart in time with a sonnet’s beat.
A Sonnet’s Beat
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