Sonnet - Don't Answer this Question

It's rhetorical... and we all know the answer anyway

Apr 20, 2024

I was trying my hand at a reverse poem, which is a poem that is to be read normally (first line first, until the end) and then backward (last line first, until you come to the first line, which is now the last line.)

Unfortunately, I didn't quite get there. Yet. But I will. Eventually. I hope.

Reverse poetry is truly one of the hardest writing forms ever invented. Perhaps the reverse poetry inventor could have just taken an existing product and put a digital clock in it, but noooo! He or she or decline to state just had to come up with the reverse poem concept. Couldn’t leave plain old forward alone, huh?

Thanks a lot!

Now how am I supposed to sleep? Or eat? Or binge-watch Downton Abbey…again? I can’t yell at the ever-so-body-slamable Larry Grey through my telly screen and write a reverse poem at the same time now, can I? It’s madness! Madness, I tell you.

Anyway, in the meantime, I came up with this non-reverse, forward-only Sonnet …..

“Don't Answer this Question”

Me? Better than the Man, the Myth, the Bard?

Or someone who couldn’t hack avant-garde?

I’ve been reading before I learned to walk

Wrote verse that wasn’t half bad, if I’m kind

Oh, to bend defiant rhymes, I don’t balk

Seems spinning rhyme is both fun and a grind

Do it with a pen, a PC or chalk

A perfect line! Another splendid find!

Am I just as good as ye ole Bill ‘peare?

Not yet. I’m full of ideas, stand clear…

I’ve been posting on the ‘stack for a year***

Creating humor that’s sweet to the ear.

***(Well, almost a year. 11 months and 1 week to be exact. Close enough…)

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