Day 16 & WPC: A sonnet to April awakening

Today’s special: A combination of images of awakening nature for WPC and a sonnet to play around with meter and rhyme.

Challenge 16: “Write a poem that prominently features the idea of play.” A sonnet, Slovenian-style. Meter: U-U-U-U-U-U, rhyme: abba-baab-cdc-dcd. My definition of the ultimate poetry play.

April Awakening

Today I wish to tell you a true story
of how a poem properly is written.
Not only nature’s wonders truly fit in
but it’s the holiest of all things holy:

A sonnet! As they do it in Great Britain
yet not: behold! This form looks foreign wholly,
befitting more some other nations’ glory.
The bel paese bards were with it smitten.

Be as it may. It’s here to sing the beauty
of these here lands by April each awoken
and burning up by June so come on, tutti:

Until all verdant shades of green get broken
by sun and heat, it is our cosmic duty
to go and feast our eyes and hearts unspoken.

Here are verdant shades of green then, all from last April, since this year I haven’t been anywhere much yet. The featured photo is not via Windows but from Crete Senesi, a dreamlike area south of Siena. By June it will all turn to brown and remain so until November. Now it’s the time to go out, I keep telling myself. And then I stay in and write sonnets.

Closest to home.

Maremma cattle by the beach.

Babybird (not old enough to be a lady).

At the crossroads in Maremma.

A view from San Bruzio monastery ruins.

At the spa with visiting sister: Montebelli Agriturismo & Country Hotel.

A tree at the spa.

Between the plant and the meadow is a warm river. Terme Saturnia.

A hop to Rome: Villa Pamphili park.

April is the month of artichokes.

Crown of thorns at the Roman garden.

A Roman flower seller.

In Rome after rain.

Another hop to Civitavecchia.

A Talamone joy for the eyes.

The best Porto Ercole house.

All Montemerano glimpses from here to the end.

One of the officially prettiest little towns of Italy (Borghi più belli d’Italia).

Tuscany in April. A dreamscape.

A pretty Montemerano scene for the final taste.

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Awakening