Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
2 min readSep 27, 2023

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I identify strongly with the feelings you convey in your sonnet. These lines,

We do not look at the eternal glow

Under the burden of the road, too long, remind me of these lines from this poem, https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/manifesto-1a8e00acb5a4, I wrote back in March:

Glowing from the void

Universal knowledge enlightens

Ah if it were only so easy

Retreat is not surrender

Defeating fear

Is victory even if it ends in

Annihilation

Nous will return

The subtitle of that poem is "An acrostic and otherwise formless downloaded poem." I chose the acrostic, Guardian Angels Only Protect Convergence Of Free Will and Death, and then simply let the poem flow. A bottle of wine helped connect me to my not-incarnated muses.

I like writing sonnets. When I learned the form back in the winter 21/22, I went on a Shakespearean sonnet spree. Then I tried other forms of sonnets. For this poem about battling my demons, https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/why-do-i-write-544e6f1a32a3, I chose the terza rima form. The rhyme scheme of the terza rima sonnet is aba bcb cdc ded followed by a rhyming couplet of either ee or aa.

I've seen you like haiku. Have you ever tried a haiku sonnet? If you google it, it's just four haiku stanzas followed by a couplet. To me, a poem of 14 lines with no rhyme scheme doesn't deserve the sonnet moniker. So I use the terza rima rhyme scheme when I write haiku sonnets. As Lindsey would have had her 40th birthday the day after tomorrow, I'll share this example with you. https://marcus17043.medium.com/my-eternal-flame-279e2dd4baf3

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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