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Sonnetino
Collateral Damage by michaelcahill

 

Collateral Damage
 
I pledged undying love until my end
and watched as all my years passed ‘round the bend
but circumstance bought wounds I could not mend
 
you couldn’t heal the travesty of war
my love’s been tainted--hate’s demanding whore



 

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Author Notes

Write a sonnetino about a promise or promises -- kept, broken, or both.
7-2 Poetry Potlatch challenge.

A sonnetino is a form created by FanStory's own Jyoti, Lightink. It's a mini sonnet using iambic metre with a tercet and rhyme scheme of aaa and a concluding couplet with a bb rhyme scheme.





     

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