The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 9/24/06)

[RetroLounge]

Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton

Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part;
or kiss anyway, let’s start with that, with the kissing part,
because it’s better than the parting part, isn’t it –
we’re good at kissing, we like how that part goes:
we part our lips, our mouths get near and nearer,
then we’re close, my breasts, your chest, our bodies partway
to making love, so we might as well, part of me thinks –
the wrong part, I know, the bad part, but still
let’s pretend we’re at that party where we met
and scandalized everyone, remember that part? Hold me
like that again, unbutton my shirt, part of you
wants to I can tell, I’m touching that part and it says
yes, the ardent partisan, let it win you over,
it’s hopeless, come, we’ll kiss and part forever.

Kim Addenizio

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RL

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[Guava Jelly]

1. IBTL just kidden I like it!

:)

[RetroLounge]

2. ...

:rofl:

RL

[Callalily]

3. Major swooning here RL!

Now that's some powerful kissing!

:hi:

[miss_american_pie]

4. LOL! I wrote a sonnenizio yesterday

There was no kissing in it though. :D :hi:

[RetroLounge]

6. Just so we know the form...

Kim Addonizio invented this form of the sonnet, calling it a sonnenizio.
What you do is take a line—any line—from someone else’s sonnet and use
it as the first line of your sonnenizio. You then repeat one word from
that first line in each of the subsequent 13 lines.
You end the poem with a rhyming couplet.

RL

(and there was no kissing because i wasn't there...)

[miss_american_pie]

7. Technically, she revived the form

It's 13th century Italian. Wanna argue about the kissing, too? ;)

[RetroLounge]

8. Uhm, no arguments here...

Just kissing.

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RL

[speedoo]

5. She's got it wrong in line 8...

The "bad part" is actually the "good part".:evilgrin:

I like it. Obviously.;-)

[fizzgig]

9. thanks for posting this RL

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. How yummy, my dear RetroLounge!

What a series of delicious images!

Yum, yum, yum!

Thank you, sweetie!

I can never have enough kisses, ever!

:bounce: :bounce:

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