BRIAN & ANGELA

GOING HOME ~ A Blank Verse FLOW SONNET

 

 

HOME I WENT ~ it was AUTUMN

AUTUMN ~ the end of every YEAR

YEAR ~ that starts with WINTER ~ two MONTHS

MONTHS ~ Jan & Feb ~ Ice & SNOW !

 

SNOW everywhere ~ everything WHITE

WHITE roads & white fields & white SHEEP

SHEEP ! Even the BLACK ones are WHITE !

WHITE with snow ~ black & white TV

TV how t\'was before COLOUR !

 

COLOUR comes back in Spring ~ I\'M BACK

BACK where I started ~ THIRTY FIVE

FIVE & THIRTY years ago ~ LOOK

LOOK where my School once was ~ ALDI !

ALDI ?  Not even WAITEROSE ~ HOME !

 

Thanks for visiting ~ comments welcome BRIAN XOX

 

I am grateful to Michael Edwards (Poet & Painter)

for permission to use \"SNOW\" which he posted

with his Poem \"Contagion\" yesterday ~ THANKS !

 

In a Flow Poem ~ each line must begin with the 

last word in the preceding line. BUT it must not be

mere repetition ~ It must flow !  Because Poetry

is a discipline !  A BLANK VERSE FLOW SONNET

must have 14 lines and each line must also be

CO-SYLLABIC ! In this example each line has eight

syllables ~ iambic tetrameter. This makes it very

reciteable (try it !). Additionally the FIRST & LAST

WORD (HOME) must be identical ! In this Poem I

have capitalised the first & last word in each line

to emphasise that it is a FLOW POEM ! BRIAN XOX