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Sonnet 9 – Bound by Ten
I love to write in many forms of verse—Villanelle, Haiku, Tanka, free and wild.Each one I’ve learned with patience, not with haste,But sonnets leave me baffled, unreconciled. I understand how rhyming lines are made,But da DUM five times still slips … Continue reading
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