it’s a something different that dances inside me
it’s a light that renders me muted~untouchable
it’s an incomplete heartbeat rhythm~ bizarrely
violent and sweet; quiet riots of syllables
meet a tattered ball of storm that curls and uncurls
it’s a shimmer of mirror, a gaggle of shadows
it’s a soft brown animal, a bruteful of howls
if one attempts to fish or wish in these shallows
well, metamorphosis blinks a wink of a flash
it’s a something different still, neither bone nor flesh
twist of exquisite breaths
.
not a haiku
.
who thinks his body, like a woman.”
NaPoWriMo day 16:- Today, the challenge, to write a curtal sonnet. This is a variation on the classic 14-line sonnet. The curtal sonnet form was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and he used it for what is probably his most famous poem, “Pied Beauty.” A curtal sonnet has eleven lines, instead of the usual fourteen, and the last line is shorter than the ten that precede it. Here are two other examples of Hopkins’ curtal sonnets: “Ash Boughs,” and “Peace.”
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