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Challenge of the Week LXXIV
This week, we tackle a poetic classic, the sonnet. Your sonnet can be Petrarchan, Shakespearean, or if you're particularly brave, you can try your hand at some other avant-garde variation. We recommend you read a few sonnets before attempting your own. We'll be looking for sophistication, originality, and beauty.
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ShannonEileen in Poetry & Free Verse

The Science Of Emotion

Emotions are a science yet explained

In the terms of human comprehension.

Paltry understanding can be attained

By logical minds that pay attention.

The energy of emotions can’t be

Created or destroyed, ever present

But changing form; swirling chaotically

Within us, waiting to be somehow spent.

Emotion lies in every soul, waiting

For the catalyst of passion to cause

A reaction, chemistry creating

everlasting and insoluble bonds.

Yet, many times these bonds evaporate

With no physical science to equate.