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INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE, “ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE…..’
by C.S. Scotkin
There are no dress rehearsals for this play
It’s show time from the moment we draw air
In lungs that cry to take the center stage.
We take our cues, then ad lib if we dare
To change somehow the plot of this grand show
Create a role that fits us, like a skin
Not costumed cumbersome, we never know
The act or time when we are stepping in
To change the tone from tragedy to bliss
With words that change the scen’ry of our soul
No higher calling for us actors, this
To leave our stage with meaning, pure and whole.
There are but two directors for our part,
A mind that’s open and a hopeful heart.
8 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The problem I have with sonnets is they .. I dunno... ok I really do not know.
this is exemplary in model and design, but it does not move me radically, We all claim centerstage in our own little worlds if our super egos allow the ego to act out.
You do sonnets well, I do not.
I still do not have your book in my collection, and I still do not have a proper bookshelf,
and my answer is as random as the wind
as I really need to get off here and take a pill and lay down,
...
Hope that all is well with you, will you write me something free like the wind?
- Danny RLv 51 decade ago
The sole departure from the rhyme structure, happens between Lines 1 and 3.
I would be tempted to slightly alter one or the other.
perhaps:
There are no dress rehearsals in this age.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You caught me on a good day. This is one of the better things I have read today. It is a bit too Hallmarky and the ideas are unoriginal, but it reads well and is in English which seems to be too high a standard anymore for poets.
Thanks.
- Sandy GigglesLv 61 decade ago
Oh Queen of the Sonnet world,
thank you for lending us your words
LOVE the last 2 lines!!!!!!!
excellent!
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- 1 decade ago
"All the world's a stage," but it's the only place we have to live on. Exemplary Sonnet.