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GUILTY  PLEASURES      (Shakespearean Sonnet)    



Haiku are fun to write because they’re short.
I tend to write them when I’m short on time.
And tanka, I am happy to report,
Are also short – and easier to rhyme.
I don’t know a pantoum from a pontoon.
And emulating Petrarch hurts my brain.
I’ll stick with Hallmark; moon and June and spoon
And pen a more conventional refrain.
It could be that I’m lacking in resolve.
Or maybe erudition’s what I lack.
A ghazal* is a puzzle I can’t solve.
It makes my train of thought go off the track.
And I would rather die and go to hell
Than ever try to write a villanelle.




* rhymes with puzzle