He walks like Caesar in the sun
His shoulders squared, his back erect.
His eyes look out on battles won
Their raw ambition yet unchecked.
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Yikes, Suzanne, another sizzler. And you manage, craft-wise, to do it in good rhyming verse. It’s a small thing against the whole of what you’ve achieved here, but to myself protect is a bit of a bump to my contemporary ear. Good! Hot! -Glen
For some reason, I love writing sonnets and other verses in rhyme and meter. It is kind of like practicing scales or doing a copy of a painting at the Louvre. And that is probably why they end up being set in the time of the poem they are imitating. But these exercises often serve to prime the pump for other poems.
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Yikes, Suzanne, another sizzler. And you manage, craft-wise, to do it in good rhyming verse. It’s a small thing against the whole of what you’ve achieved here, but to myself protect is a bit of a bump to my contemporary ear. Good! Hot! -Glen
For some reason, I love writing sonnets and other verses in rhyme and meter. It is kind of like practicing scales or doing a copy of a painting at the Louvre. And that is probably why they end up being set in the time of the poem they are imitating. But these exercises often serve to prime the pump for other poems.