Shakespeareans Sonnet
# 5
Those hours that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell
Will play the tyrants to the very same,
And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there,
Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
But flowers distilled though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell
Will play the tyrants to the very same,
And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there,
Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
But flowers distilled though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.
Modern Sonnet
Let's Be Friends Again
by Anthony Dela torre, Philippines
I never expected this to happen
I never wanted to make space between us
but nevertheless I can fix what's broken
and our friendship to somehow last
We both know that we misunderstood each other
and that our friendship became unstable
but we can't deny that we both miss each other
yet being friends again isn't impossible
Our own pride sets us apart
but this can be prevented
by understanding the feelings in our heart
and once again we will be reunited
I want us to be friends again
and hug each other in a count of ten.
