pool

Text: The paupers friend

from David J Delaney, 18.11.09

Yesterday for the 1st time in my life I started reading Shakespeare's sonnets & fell in love with them, I didn't even know what a sonnet was, so I would like to put forward to my learnerd friends my 1st humble attempt at a sonnet with a slight Shakespearean feel.

Sonnet no.1


The paupers friend


Now thou hast mingled with the noble class
but they’d not see in life that which I do see,
they hold their feasts', drink from the purest glass,
in finest mansions built beside the sea.
See not the homeless begging on the street,
nor in dark laneways, wet with cold they die.
See not the children sick or with bare feet,
nor for the measly scraps thrown out they vie.
If I could forward through the frames of time
to lands afar unheard of now by thee,
would not thine eyes view pestilence and crime,
would still there be fine mansions by the sea.
Where still are those who sleep in laneways cold,
and nobles, whom for wealth their souls they’ve sold.
 
David J Delaney.

Tags

Alert Moderator

[Alert Moderator]

Comments

2 comments

Add Comment