Sonnet #4 aka Undead earth aka When a Woman Desires

This piece was rebranded as "Undead Earth", a shortfilm production featuring Russ Walton, Myself, Alexandra T. Rieloff and CVP studios. It was inspired by the works and style of Barry Ballard.

Sonnet #4 Untitled

Tobias H. Reese

VO Audition piece 1

　

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Sonnet #4

By Tobias H. Reese.

When a woman desires, she takes nothing for granted;

the aspirations of an oldest child,

bipolar disorders,

numbness that crawls into the arms

clinging to unconditional love while the means to a solution

 lie

 two paychecks in the future- a future that no one can honestly have faith in-

Medicaid lies.

Dreams weigh the difference between hardships.

Truth and denial speak to the Ghost

of a little girl who isn’t ready for this...

Whom was never ready for this.

Yet our clock chuckles

while mania throws out harsh arguments

of time's casualties.

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Author's Note

An attempt - unformatted- in the modern "wrap around" sonnet style.

This piece was rebranded as "Undead Earth", a shortfilm production featuring Russ Walton, Myself, Alexandra T. Rieloff and CVP studios.

I write in the land of metaphor, a world of symbolism and unrestrained abstraction governed by a hypothetical thought process and rhetorical sense of understanding.
If ever you feel the need to remark to me "I know how you feel" or something of that nature, please refrain as you aren't understanding the nature of what I've written at all.
It should never be assumed my art is personal.

Reviews

[mattavelli]

Hello, Tobias, I enjoyed the story, but not the choppy form you've written it in.

[Tobias H. Reese]

I don't blame you. (An experimental attempt at a "wrap-around" sonnet inspired by Barry Ballard.) Thanks for reading. The artfilm built upon this is just as quirky. Piece.

[Tobias H. Reese]

Peace. That's what I meant haha

[mattavelli]

Kk, enjoy the holidays!

[Tobias H. Reese]

:-) same to you! I'll check out your writing soon.

[mattavelli]

Thanks. I have some sonnets posted. What sort of poetry do you like?

[Tobias H. Reese]

All kinds...if they are good. :-)
PS I have several contests running if you are interested.

[mattavelli]

I saw your "too many morons" contest, but I have nothing labeled as one of the three genres that you limited it to.

[Tobias H. Reese]

Here are the others I have running: (all of which calling for short pieces)
1) "Resolutions: haiku for the New Year"
2) "Scriptwriter and Screenplay"
3) "Short western poetry"
4) "Write a photo caption"
5) "Song writing challenge"
6) "Without you"

[Tobias H. Reese]

I changed the choppy formatting of the piece above too. Thanks again.

[mattavelli]

Its much easier to read now. I'll Google wrap around sonnet.

[mattavelli]

And Google showed me your video, sonnet #4.

[Tobias H. Reese]

Great. Other talents were a part of that video as well. (Russ Walton, Alexandra T. Rieloff...) but of course if you watched or read about the vid you are aware of that. :-)
There are actually a few different versions of that video; different voice-actors now that I think of it. I think another one featured Wendy Wilcox which is a great voice for childrens material should you ever need to hire her or collaborate with her.

[Tobias H. Reese]

oh I see now...yes...you probably saw literally "sonnet4" (first draft)
The "official one" in my eyes is "Undead Earth" (features Alexandra and the piano score was replaced with ambient/artmusic guitar etc.)

[mattavelli]

What I saw had piano and the voice of Wendy Wilcox.

[Tobias H. Reese]

I'm not as fond of that one so much as the other but I thank your time in watching. Peace.