Poetic Form 82: Curtal Sonnet

 

No Art Needed

No pen, no brush, has to touch paper in

this life. Nothing will be missed from art not

created from pain, joy, or any of

the heart’s languages spoken. Don’t begin

to believe a song moves a lover’s thought.

We can live a digital life, tic-tock

the only music that counts. Spending time

like our pockets are filled with enough clot

to have our name shine in the stars above.

Ignore the muse, don’t search for the end rhyme

with love.

Poetic Form #82: Curtal Sonnet

The curtal sonnet was invented in the 19th century by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poem has 10 lines written in iambic pentameter and then a final single spondee line (a foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables). 

The rhyme scheme is as follows:

1 Line : a
2 Line : b
3 Line: c
4 Line : a
5 Line : b
6 Line : c
7 Line : d
8 Line : b
9 Line : c
10 Line : d
11 Line : c