A man sat quietly watching his wife eat.
He looked very hungry as she ate her meat.
Thoughts of yesteryear in his mind coalesced,
In his shirt with holes and his pants not pressed.
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Sadness turned suddenly into comedy! That's great! Taking turns with the false teeth. I like it.
This poem is technically a sonnet. It does not follow the rhyme pattern of the Italian sonnet nor the English sonnet, but it does have fourteen lines, and I had a professor of poetry at the university who said that any fourteen-line poem is a sonnet. My sister has won many poetry awards, though, and she disagrees with that, so...
I'm no expert. I just write for fun.
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Sadness turned suddenly into comedy! That's great! Taking turns with the false teeth. I like it. This poem is technically a sonnet. It does not follow the rhyme pattern of the Italian sonnet nor the English sonnet, but it does have fourteen lines, and I had a professor of poetry at the university who said that any fourteen-line poem is a sonnet. My sister has won many poetry awards, though, and she disagrees with that, so... I'm no expert. I just write for fun.
Thanks, Kim. It was based on a joke that one of my hiking buddies told me.