Welcome back and my apologies for being so sporadic. This week’s random choice is a standard Spenserian Sonnet (English Sonnet with a rhyme scheme that links the quatrains) ABAB BCBC CDCDEE
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Defensores Libertatis #23 Fair Libertas, she stands, a beacon tall With eyes of fire, firm in her resolve. Though she's surrounded by a pack of thralls Intent on her great blessings to dissolve. Knows she her value, people do devolve Forget they the importance to be free. They think their duty to defend absolved While chains of slav'ry strengthen by degree. She sits in quiet halls, who'll guarantee The ties that bind us to her won't be broke? The thankless gathered round her, absentee. But she's a Phoenix, rising up like smoke. Against such callousness who would defy? The brave who love her! They'll declare, tis I. Frank Garnick © Copyright The Archer's March 31 January 2022
This one is, on the surface, a quite obvious discussion on Liberty. I had fully meant it to be associated with similar ideas of duty to others. Friends, loved ones, colleagues etc.
Forgive my (more than likely) butchering of Latin. You know what they say. A person who speaks three languages is called tri-lingual. One who speaks two is bi-lingual. Someone who speaks one is called an American.
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