General Poetry posted August 16, 2020


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How might EBB have written her sonnets?

A Treatise on How I Write by EBB

by RodG

Oh, darling, how I write I cannot say,
but whence I think of you the words do flow.
Our love affair has kept my heart aglow,
inspiring verses scribed with quill each day.
My sonnets take their shape as feelings stray,
transcend to thoughts then diction apropos.
And any sight of you will surely sow
concepts for images with which I'll play.
If I but hear you laugh or see you smile,
I'll fashion lines that end in pleasing rhyme,
their cadence mimicking my heart's profile.
My theme: Love's constancy makes life sublime.
Each poem in do seu amante's style
confirms my love for you will last through time.

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How do you write your poetry? contest entry

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2020


I have taken the liberty of becoming the voice of Elizabeth Barrett Browning whose sonnet HOW DO I LOVE THEE? is one of the greatest love poems in the world.

HOW/WHY she wrote this to her husband Robert is what I try to answer in a sonnet written in her style.

Do seu amante is Portuguese for your lover�¢??s
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