Il Canzoniere!

[Eddie Teach]

I dunno, most of these poems look like they were whipped up in a minute or two.

[Ed Anger]

Poetry was always Ed's achilles heel in English classes.

[Lettow77]

 I'll go ahead and respond to the troll Wiggin- why don't you make a sonnet your own self?  a minute or two, indeed.

[Eddie Teach]

I composed enough doggerel in high school, don't feel the need to do so anymore.

[The Brain]

Who cares about your feelings?

[Caliga]

So Lettuce, what do you plan on doing with your life once you graduate from college?  Professional defecation poet?

[Lettow77]

 It's all very murky. Life doesn't have any of the assured structure it used to. Law/professor/state dept?/teach english on the moon.

One of these. At the time, I was proud of the defecation poem. Perhaps it was too obscene- I won't venture into such territory again.

[Caliga]

I think you would probably be a good social studies teacher. 

[Razgovory]

I actually, enjoy poetry.  Good Poetry.  Sorry, Lettow but you seem to be channeling McGonagall.

[Razgovory]

I was thinking that Romantic Poetry would be the best fit for a Southern Nationalist, but I honestly can't think of a great Southern Romantic.  The great American Romantics are Northerners.

[FunkMonk]

Please be a teacher. Please.

[Lettow77]

 I had to look up McGonagall- whose poetry is uh, something.

For Southern Nationalists, the go-to figures to admire and emulate would assuredly be Timrod or Ryan.

I resist the claim that my sonnets are horrible though-  I may be pretty weak in metaphor, but I don't attempt it, for this reason. Things scan just fine- I see to that much. I take your claim more seriously than others because it is evident they have no appreciation for sonnets in the first place. I happen to think my sonnets are just fine, and getting better. I do recognize that some are better than others.

  If languish is so ill-disposed to it, however, I will continue publishing my poems privately, until such time as all 366 are done. It was the original intent to ensure the book of poems could be given to its recipient and have the poems found nowhere else, so it is a logical course in any event. I just thought someone should enjoy it- after the effort that goes into construction, there is a desire to share it.

I regret posting in this thread without a sonnet to show, but i've come down with the megrims, and have not been able to produce anything after several days of rather busy schoolwork and a pervasive malaise only interrupted briefly by the shining light of ponies. The Dashing Young Prince languishes in Ohio, and I am sleeping more than is normal while getting not much beyond academic assignment accomplished.

Edit: On a matter less relating to languish's reaction but more my own output, I regret I cannot be relied upon to make one a day. It is hard to predict how humours will take me, and I need more discipline. I am plagued by notions as to the point of the project, despair at its length, & etc. Still, I wish rather greatly to get it done, so I will continue to do my best, even if the deadline for its release is continuously deferred.

[The Brain]

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (non-rhetorical)?

[Lettow77]

um, if it pleases you?

[The Brain]

It does.