Competition: Shakesperean Sonnet

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Shakesperean Sonnet

Stanzaic Pattern

The English (or Shakespearean) sonnet, is usually arranged into three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg.

Example:

When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, (a)

I all alone beweep my outcast state, (b)

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, (a)

And look upon mysef and curse my fate, (b)

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, (c)

Featured like him, like him with friends possesed, (d)

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, (c)

With what I most enjoy contented least; (d)

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, (e)

Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (f)

Like to the lark at break of day arising (e)

From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; (f)

For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings, (g)

That then I scorn to change my state with kinds. (g)

~ William Shakespeare; Sonnet 29

Your objective is to provide a shakespearean sonnet of your own making.

Competition Information
Parent Competition
A Period of Poetry
Organized by
Creon Neverse
Running time
2022-04-01 until 2022-04-30 (about 1 month)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Fiction
Awards
Second Level Crescents
Participants
6 subscribers, of which 3 have participated.
Results
Member
General Ronovi Tavisaen
Textual submission

Over thy wounds, I breathe what was once yours:
all memories in cool tendrils of air,
sorrows like smoke wafting through all my pores
and in and out of my nostrils. The pair
of us are riddled with inadequate
tattoos - spider webs - leaking red and black -
we bleed ink - we are ink - our plodding fate
to be nothing but scribbles on the back
of the hand of some god soaked in ennui,
like cologne. I will kiss each broken word,
assuming the shape of your fractured teeth,
until your language somehow can be heard -
revived - recognized - burning in my mouth.
I never knew that you could be so loud.

Placement
1st place
Member
Watchman Lontra Boglach
Textual submission

Once, a long long time ago
There was a man named Rhys
He had a saber that could glow,
And passionately preferred boxer-briefs
Known as a champion of justice,
He grew up in a swamp with no sun.
Sounds fake, right? Trust us.
Fore, he's not another 'Chosen One'
This guy was from a family of high power,
Lied he'd protect the Clan Odan-Urr
But when blasters fired, he simply cowered.
And drank all of our liqueur.
However, this would later be forgotten,
Once the man healed what was rotten.

Placement
2nd place
Member
Combat Master "Aequitas" Anderson
Submission
Combat Master "Aequitas" Anderson opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
3rd place