A Modernist Sonnet

You don't need to know Modernism, but it helps

Ezra, Eliot needing a juicy rhyme

wagered: loser would have to blanket Stein!

Two weeks, ten days, they bantered the rhyme's time

line, iambic or free based, Mersey or Rhine?

Eliot proposed April, the lilacs in bloom,

Ezra a little crusty argued for Berlin

in autumn, far easier to let a room!

To judge, they asked the old Butler, a whim

seeing how Yeats could really bus ta rhyme!

William considered, demurred, a waste land

of colored couplets too much in his mine:

"I'm also quite certain," he tartly quipped

"that old w***e Gertrude, more than you two goats

could ever bed! Besides she loves boats."

Ken e Bujold

2022

Reviews

[Lisasview]

Hysterical...Ken...
Really enjoyed reading this as I wait for Bob to grill salmon..
I do enjoy rhyme in any form...
Yours is especially clever..

Lisa, going to eat now

[Ken e Bujold]

glad you enjoyed Lisa, happy chowing

[Lisasview]

You are most welcome...
Dinner was great and now off to see a movie...

[W. Barrett Munn]

Cracks me up every time. As an aside, university of Oklahoma had a football player named Buster Rhymes, and there is the rapper Busta Rhymes.

Still, I hate writing sonnets; it’s like writing in handcuffs.

Winston

[Ken e Bujold]

of course, yes to both, didnt think i pulled that one of thin air did ya

[W. Barrett Munn]

No, I knew it was someone-maybe a boxer, too?