<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340620" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fourteen Verses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My passion is to write modern sonnets<br>Yes indeed modern not traditional.<br>Iambic pentameter I regret<br>Is too restrictive and conditional.<br>I had observed that many years ago.<br>Expression of thought is more important<br>Than any well-placed iamb, apropos.<br>These little songs* are not songs at all; shan’t<br>Pretend when they're not. Mine are messages<br>That I compose within fourteen verses: <br>Some assurances, other presages.<br>They are my work for better or for worse.<br>If I fail to convey in fourteen lines<br>I'd nothing to say and wasted your time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* Sonnet means little song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Albert+Ahearn">Albert Ahearn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340620" data-title="Fourteen Verses de Albert Ahearn" data-description="My passion is to write modern sonnets Yes indeed modern not traditional. Iambic pentameter I regret Is too restrictive and conditional. I had observed that many years ago. Expression of thought is more important Than any well-placed iamb, apropos...."></div> </div> </div>

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