My son’s High School Freshman English class at
Paly has been studying poetry
all semester. Paul has been writing poems in 7 forms: haiku, limmerick,
cinquain, free verse, narrative, and sonnet. He told me on Tuesday that
he had 5 done and needed to write 2 more poems by Thursday (the last day
of class). I haven’t written a sonnet in years but we sat down and
worked out the following on the subject dearest to his 14-year-old heart:
Xbox video games.
Gaming Sonnet
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X-box video gaming is fun to do,
You can choose to be on the Red Team,
Or you can choose to be on the Blue.
You must always want to sneakily scheme:
Your reflexes must be fast and sure.
People that are good at an X-box game,
Have intentions that are not often pure.
Most people play Halo2 about the same,
But some gamers are very fast,
So they win their matches clever and quick.
Imagination makes a good game last,
Crushing Red soldiers bloody and slick.
X-box gaming is never boring,
So gamers minds are always soaring.
The meter and number of syllables are flawed but it seems like
a good first effort.
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