Steadfast
John gifted me with fabled tales
of you before we were a we
How you cooled his jets keeping him outta jail
How you copied Dustin Hoffman to a tee
bought the Graduate preppy whale
shirts and 5 speed Alfa Romeo built for he and she.
The time the gang visited you in Bama
snuck a girl in against your sleeping back
you bumped her out, having nonna
their drunken shenanigans in your sack
holding fast engagement vows to mama
not yielding to seduction and revelry tracks
Loyalty and devotion scored
for me and best bud John.
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This is almost like a rap sonnet!! Way to go, Linda!!
I like the concept of a “revelry track”–our choices leading to increasingly inevitable destinations.
Great work
love what you did with “nonna”
Love this contemporary take on the sonnet! That final couplet puzzles me in terms of the form but overall it’s delicious.
Wonderful details here, Linda! What a treat to read your work again this month!
Thanks everyone!
Gone back and read several of your poems I missed so far and love them all, Linda. As another commenter said on a different poem of yours, you capture the human element in a very kind and warm way that is endearing. Now this poem is a rap-sonnet like Kathleen said which is just awesome to me.
Thx Stefan!
Great rhythm and rhyme with a sense of whimsy.