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Unlike the Daily Deeds that Dull the Mind Unlike the daily deeds that dull the mind, Requiring waves of sight or sound to numb The stark and trite reality of their kind (And sometimes hint my world is out of plumb.), And not as when the hands and eyes and ears Are like a trinity of tedium, When each a moment only commandeers And loses it to pandemonium, With form and echo, meter, craft, and line, Only in silence can these words become, And brew and ferment to a heady wine Whose parts can never witness to its sum. These iambs born of quiet, tranquil time Can roar like lions with awesome, daring rhyme! |
Additional Notes:
A sonnet about writing poetry... at least my way of writing poetry which requires absolute silence so I can say the words out loud and really hear the music of the lines.
Note re line 2: use a 3 syllable pronunciation of "Requiring" not "Re qui er ing" but rather "Re quir ing".
Note re line 3: "reality" is meant to be pronounced in a sort of abbreviated form: not "re al i ty" but rather "re al ty"... works for me.
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