Pollen
Fairy dust sprinkles in yellows and gold
Powdery rain leaves its Spring tell-tale sign
Microgametophytes soon will be bold
New life will come forth, a touch of Divine.
Before proud timbers can dress in their green,
Preceding the show of floral delight,
Teary eyes, drippy nose; insistent, obscene–
Grab tissues and Zyrtec, armed for the fight!
Requisite evil, makes me furious!
Can't go outside and not feel its effect.
Why'd God create it? Aren't you curious?
Here's one idea (feel free to object):
Sometimes life's bothers are means to the ends.
Beauty from ashes is all He intends.
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I wrote this for National Poetry Month in conjunction with ; after beginning several "serious" Spring-themed sonnets, and then reading many of the wonderful submissions, it sounded like that's what several had in mind. I started over, obviously going in a VERY different Spring/Sonnet direction.
How 'bout we make this a challenge for Pensieve's Poetic License, too? Try your hand at a Spring-themed sonnet, let me know in comments, then to share your poem with a broader audience! If you don't have a blog, don't be shy–leave your submission in comments.
If you complete it by 10:00 p.m. EST on April 17th, you'll be eligible to win a $25 giftcard to the darlin', DARLIN' (in)courage shop! {Click their badge in my right sidebar to see all you can buy whether or not you win! 🙂 }
Brilliant, relevant, and humorous!!!
You are soooo smart and creative!
Since I’m currently watery-eyed and sniffly I can so relate. Evil, evil pollen. Love it.
Oh my! I can SO relate! I started back on my Zyrtec two weeks ago and Flonase yesterday. Ugh I despise allergies. Your sonnet was wonderful! 🙂
Wahooo, Donna! That's what I was trying to achieve!! Thank you! 🙂
Hey sissy…I'll give you $5 next time I see ya 😉 🙂 xo.
Prudence, all these comments are makin' me SMILE! LOVE that! 🙂
Thank you, Dawn. I actually enjoyed writing it (once I gave up writing a serious, "pretty" Spring-themed poem). 🙂
P.E.R.F.E.C.T.
I kept trying to think of something witty to say, but I’m not capable of witty today. (That said I’m not attempting a sonnet today, either.) But I just loved this, as always.
This is really great Robin. I got your email reminder, wrote a sonnet, but I am apparently too late (it’s 4:30 saturday afternoon). I’ll leave my link anyway, just for fun. Thanks!
http://lindaspatchworkquilt.blogspot.com/2010/04/drought-my-sonnet.html
(I left it in the comments at (In)courage too.
Weird…. I tried signing in differently and got through
anyway….. I love the subject. I hate the runny nose, tho. bwaa ha. (My mom always asked, “What? Are you upside down? Your nose runs and your feet smell!”
I betcha looked up microgametophytes. )”
I’m sure they have their place in the scheme of things. We’ve just messed up things so badly that we’ve made ourselves unable to deal with them. Poor little things!
Amber,
THANK YOU. Not sure anyone's evah said anything I've written is perfect, and with creative punctuation, no less! Who needs wit when you've blessed my socks off??? 🙂
Amber,
THANK YOU. Not sure anyone's evah said anything I've written is perfect, and with creative punctuation, no less! Who needs wit when you've blessed my socks off??? 🙂
Linda,
I waved my automagical wand and VOILA! I added your link! Thanks for joining in the fun…I just love it when people stretch to write poetry!
Pamela,
Hehe, OF COURSE I looked that up! But I HAD to use it…I think it's because I was delirious when I wrote it, lol. I started about six OTHER sonnets before landing this one; I had visited (secretly) everyone who had written one at that point, and we all sounded similar….sooooo….I went a different direction.
Very different.
🙂
Robin that was great!! As a major allergy sufferer I couldn’t have pened it any better!
~Christina