It's hard being so dazzlingly luminous
when the rest of the sky looms so darkly above
an earth hammered flat. To deny yourself love
and dwell with the abstract and numinous,
hoard troves of strange and voluminous
kenning, as if, thereby, to offset the shove
of knowing your hands will someday be gloved
and your eyes will fog, all misted with rheuminess.
What comfort it is, then, to show
that though I can't find any rhymes for "orange", I am
able to float on this lexical flow
and deduce from the sum of the little I know
that I'd have better luck with "sporangium"
to fashion this sonnet . Like so! :
when the rest of the sky looms so darkly above
an earth hammered flat. To deny yourself love
and dwell with the abstract and numinous,
hoard troves of strange and voluminous
kenning, as if, thereby, to offset the shove
of knowing your hands will someday be gloved
and your eyes will fog, all misted with rheuminess.
What comfort it is, then, to show
that though I can't find any rhymes for "orange", I am
able to float on this lexical flow
and deduce from the sum of the little I know
that I'd have better luck with "sporangium"
to fashion this sonnet . Like so! :
