I Swear it's a Sonnet!!

Trying to write an Italian sonnet I read about in Creative Writing Class. I was like "Man, I hate writing Regular Sonnets! So let me write one about hating to write sonnets!"

I Swear it’s a Sonnet!!

I have nothing to write about tonight

Boredom is the only thing I can see

The paper is a blank as night to me.

If only I could grow wings and take flight,

To surely resist with all of my might

This homework that’s making me want to flee.

Sonnets make me want to drown in the sea…

Somehow, I’ve just gotta put up a fight.

 

This cramp in my hand is making me cry.

You couldn’t possibly know how this feels.

Doing this project is making trees die!

HEY! Don’t you even dare let out a sigh!

Many young people are missing their meals,

 

Writing sonnets and stabbing out their eye.

Author's Note

I really do despise writing these, it's like
running twenty miles with a headache. Not kidding...
That has gotta be heck in a handbasket right there, man.

If you laughed, giggled, chuckled, smiled, whatever...
That was my goal :D So let me know. <3

Reviews

[Justin Tobey]

:) Mission achieved! I was smiling the whole time!

I can relate to this fairly well, but probably not with the intensity that you experienced. But I definitely understand having to write in rigid forms and structures. I have some simple structured poems with a syllable pattern of 8-6-8-6 or 7-5-7-5, but complex poetic formulae completely escape me. After a while, it seems you're losing the words you want to use and the ideas you want to convey behind the constant rules of formulae. I'm not saying their bad, because I've read some beautiful pieces that used them, but I can understand your frustration with having to use them yourself.

This piece is amusing and fun. Good job! :D

[Jeff Miller]

"The paper is a blank as night to me"

This line only has 9 syllables, instead of the proper 10...but other than that great job!

[Cคɾเ&#..]

OMFG I'm freakin inspired....I'm searching for sonnets for my project, and we can write them or just respond to them, and I'm sooooooooooooooooo going to analize this poem. haha this just made my day considerably lighter! only 7 more poems to go....

[Wildfleour]

Sorry to torture you so! (NOT) ;)

Growth is never easy............some lines don't flow well with their rhyme scheme, when read out loud.

For example:

If only I could grow wings and take flight,

I could resist with all of my might