Can I call it a love story? The one where you broke my heart into pieces.
He shall burst into flames, for crashing like a meteor wounding my faith in love.
My faith in him faded like the clouds disappearing from a dark moonless sky,
The Moon no longer being espied as if lost in the haze of your vile fumes.
I have delved into the chaotic chasm between us,
searching for what true love is, only to taste disappointment.
Is it my profound fervor for obsession or am I delusional?
He who acted like the London Boy written by Taylor Swift;
not only flawed his identity, yet also faked his sweet disposition.
I was the lonely bearer of all the grief, ridiculed every committed man
until I find ‘the one’, certain of the fact- him and I could never be us,
though, had the privilege of being written in a novel or a song lyric.
Two virtual characters falling in forbidden love- a catastrophe,
one drifted by passion, the other silently absent in the picture.
~Navaparna
Day 9 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2023.
Prompt 9 source: https://www.napowrimo.net/poets-start-your-engines/
Today, sonnets are probably most commonly associated with Shakespeare (who wrote more than 150, and felt very little compunction about messing around with the form, at least to the extent of regularly saying “who cares” to strict iambs). But poets’ attention to the form hasn’t waned in the 400 years or so since the Bard walked the fields around Stratford-upon-Avon and tramped the stage-boards of Merrie Old England. Take a look at this little selection of contemporary sonnets by Dennis Johnson, Alice Notley, Robert Hass, and Jill Alexander Essbaum. You’ll notice that while all of these poems play in some way on the theme of love, they are tonally extremely different – as is the kind or quality of love that they discuss. Some rhyme, some don’t. They mostly stick to around 14 lines but They’re also not at all shy about incorporating contemporary references (the Rolling Stones, telephones, etc).
Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own sonnet. Incorporate tradition as much or as little as you like – while keeping in general to the theme of “love.”
I was out of my mind, confused how to start off with a sonnet, eventually I let my tangled thoughts run across the way it likes and certainly I was unsure as to what exactly am I proceeding to write about but then I found a contrasting effect between two mismatched lovers at odds and the story of a heartbreak took the way out. I am actually glad the story line reflected my past relationships and it portrayed the more one tries to cling onto the other obsessively, the more they get hurt and for the other one, it doesn’t even matter to them when they are so evidently not pouring enough love, simply using it for their advantage. I hope this poem literally depicts the picture of the two lovers, one broken by the other and obviously written by Taylor Swift!! I wrote it in a way Taylor would have chosen the boy in her song and probably using her kind of language in showing the boy’s character in my poem, little lyrical, little passive, not sounding brutal but little bit of kind and compulsive.
The passionate learner 