Upon high banks of the river Thames, I sit
Eating a Toastie thick, so glutenous and dry.
I contemplate existence and my mind's a-flit
With thoughts both base and existentially awry.
Like life, this dirty river flows, a never-ending stream
Of molecules and mysteries, old and vast and wide.
I ponder all the history below, waiting for us unseen
Underneath the ripples cast from steady, rolling tides.
I toss a slice of the baked and bleached-white bore,
Meant to sustain nutritional goals,
Into the drink as a reminder of this mortal norm:
O! the price we pay for living is an unwelcome, hefty toll.
Yet still I sit, still I ponder, still I carry on,
Me and the waters of the river Thames, until the break of dawn.
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24 in 24 – Hour 19
SONNET FOR STARING DOWN INFINITY IN THE QUIET OF THE EARLY MORNING
Oh painful time, you inspire me to write.
How I loathe the way you flow, run, escape,
Infecting my mind from sunrise to blank night
Always moving moving, with dark mouth agape.
Why should I despise your gaping maw,
When you must march from orders cryptic?
Grey heavens echo the great black crow’s caw,
That ushers us forward apocalyptic.
Why should I hate you, when you have no willful say?
Close your monarchic eyes and acquiescent hands.
Your glistening bright teeth write horrors my days.
Your omnipresent nature burns like sunned sands.
I know I cannot change you, despite desperate pleas,
Remember these bleak words whilst you bear down upon me.
Happy Mother’s Day
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About Shakespeare’s Sonnet GeneratorShakespeare’s Sonnet Generator takes up where the Bard of Avon left off. Using 70 of his lines, our website can generate any of 61 036 015 625 new sonnets. Writing the software was easy, but selecting the lines was a balancing act between rhyme and reason. Out of Shakespeare’s original 2 156 lines, we picked fourteen sets of five rhyming lines.Our implementation is based on the Shakespearean Telesonnet Program described by Dave Morice in the November 1991 issue of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.Shakespeare’s Sonnet Generator is the only one on the Web that produces poetry from Shakespeare’s original sonnets with the correct rhythm and rhyme scheme. It uses only lines from Shakespeare, and all the lines fit together grammatically.There are other kinds of sonnets, but Shakespeare’s are the best-known throughout the world. A Shakespearean sonnet is fourteen lines long and has an iambic pentameter rhythm throughout. The lines rhyme in the pattern ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
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