Failed Attempt at a Sonnet - Circa 1988

[shadowkat]

Since I discussed this in the last post - might as well share it? My failed attempt at a Sonnet. It was written in 1988. And I was about 20-21 at the time.

The English Major

Dreams like half finished sentences
Cloud my mind and spiritus
With paragraphs of weariness
As I start to lust for past tenses
Verbs conquer nouns and adjectives
Grammar fails when you touch me
(With arms like parenthesis)
And I wonder how active
They must be to cause an interim -
Blocking me, yet not making sense
As you part, not end, our sentence
Leaving me with a semicolon;
Hanging in space, dear letterhead
What happened to the period?

I'm not positive, memory being hazy and all that? But I think I was making fun of the Sonnet, romance in general, myself, punctuation and well the inanities of sentence structure. It was 1988. I was done with unrequited love, and trying to write a frigging Sonnet.

I wrote oodles of poetry in the 1980s.