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Let's bring back sonnets! I challenge you to write a Shakespearean sonnet. 14 lines, the first 12 lines are separated into 3 quatrains with 4 lines each. The last 2 lines are its own couplet at the end. Each line has 10 syllables. It is an iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is as follows: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. For more of an explanation follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/SonnetHowTo or message me any questions. For an example follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/18Sonnet.
Azimuth in Poetry & Free Verse

Clouds Becalmed

A vapor… I arise up from the sea

And lofting up, I'm captured by the wind

The dust of dead men's bones still clings to me

On the heat of violent waves, I ascend

I grasp for the heights, gasping for a breeze

Sorrow's weight drags me low on mountain peaks

Till tears within my bowels at last release

I pour myself on crippled earth to weep

And when the soiled thirst of dust is drenched

I heave myself up on the coming storm

And bleed at dusk when light is quenched

And there in hope I wait for dawn reborn

Becalmed by heavy darkness devoid of wind.

Oh, breathe a breath of wind on which I may ascend.