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Laughing angels dancing round burn fires
Drenched with youthful spirit and innocence
Life is a dream, in our small frames once lived
Imagination fueled young desires
Cowboys ‘n’ Indians, we played in pretense
By day-dream’s Never-land we are captive
Boisterous as chirping birds on a wire
Love and friendship we share in transparence
Being naughty or nice without motive
Trampoline jumping, higher and higher
Skirts raise and the boys stare with pure essence
“Girls wear weird shorts”- minds still uncorruptive
That age, care-free will I always admire
Day-dreams, laughs, tears… flickers from burn fires
Its about Trireme Sonnet tonight on dVerse and we have Samuel Peralta taking us through the motions 🙂
The Sonnet consists of four tercets (with rhyme scheme ABC-ABC-ABC-ABC), followed by a heroic couplet (with rhyme taken from one of the above tercet lines, AA, or BB, or CC).
Read more about it here: Form for All: On Midwinter, Magic Realism, and a Trireme Sonnet. Please feel free to join us at the bar 🙂
Cheerio! 😉
Festival King 
very nicely composed my friend
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Besides dVerse I have you to thank also 😀
Thanks for the crash course 🙂
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very nice…the elements you use are playful…and bring back childhood…the tramp…we used to jump on one…had a cousin break his arm on one…ha…cowboys n indians of course…ha….yeah a little more innocence back then too…smiles….very cool use of the form…
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Thanks Brian 🙂 .. Childhood seems like such a dream now… Please tell your kids to love it while it last 😀
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Aww…sweet, innocent youth…love the memories of those (sometimes) carefree, fun days. Enjoyed reading this…very nice.
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Thank you 🙂
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Fantastic playful image of those days we will always admire.
BTW, no “t” in “drenched”, also, it is “transparence”. Or maybe you did that intentionally.
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Oops! Thank goodness this was for fun and not an English class ‘coz I just noticed some other typos 😮
I’m glad my mistakes didn’t keep you from the image I was trying to portray 😀
Thanks for stopping by!
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Nah, I loved the way you painted those days we admire. The typos were not distracting at all — just thought you’d like to know.
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I appreciate the gesture 🙂
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This definitely brings back a lot of memories – Neverland, Cowboys-and-Indians, trampolines – in a composition that owes much of its sense of innocence and freedom to the traditionality and subtle rhyme scheme of the Trireme Sonnet. Wonderfully done.
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I’m glad you like it!… Thanks a bunch for the challenge!
Cheers!
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You are an amazing poet, beautiful one! And fearless at tackling forms! This was wonderful.
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Thanks Debbie 🙂 … You are the best!
Hugs!
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nice…childhood is such a magical time…smiled at being naughty or nice without motive.. sometimes i want to have back that immediacy of a child
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Thank Claudia 🙂 … I smiled all through as I wrote this one 😀
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Such sweet nostalgia I really love it. Very nice.
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I’m glad u think so 🙂
Cheers!
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Cowboys and Indians – we did that too, surprising seeing as the UK never really had either! I love the playful tone you’ve maintained through this poem, which so effectively disguises the form.
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I’m all the way in Nigeria and we still played Cowboys and Indians 😀
I’m glad you like the poem! 🙂
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Wow, amazing that even in Nigeria you played cowboys and Indians. And, yes, there is so much to be said for those times of youth.
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Lol! I guess it is 😀 …. Not sure whose idea it was to get us a bow and arrow- From then on it was either Cowboys and Indians or Robin Hood 😀
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Upe, your writing is wonderful, loved the lesson you gave, too, along with the trip back to a simpler time…sending hugs!
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🙂 Thank you Lauren 🙂
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…playful in its innocence…. anyone could def relate to this… beautiful take and what fun to read as i reminisce the days of yore… smiles…
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Smiling back… Thanks! 🙂
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nice. Love the images you bring back here. Lots of memories recalled here. Thanks
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Thanks 🙂
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Photo gave life to the amazing poetry. Thank you for sharing the excellent poem.
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O thank you 🙂
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