<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The thief</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Recently, I read Kahil Gibran’s prose' The Criminal”. I have read it at least two other times in the past but this recent read had effected me more so than the past reads. So much so, that I was inspired to write this sonnet not too long after I put the book down.<br>In Gibran’s prose the man from the beginning was poor. How he winds up, to me, at least seemed fated.<br>In my sonnet, in the first quatrain I added the God Moros (God Of Destiny) to build on my theme (Fate) </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>The stars were dim when he entered as man. <br>The angry Moros god unfurled his wrath<br>on mothers womb, thus poverty began<br>its dolorous debilitating path. <br>His youthful foes were painful hunger-pangs. <br>He'd sit at byways begging alms to no<br>avail. Idle dinner bells ne'er rang. <br>He'd think, when might I eat? He didn't know. <br>Unfed and desperate he took to theft. <br>Thus headed for the corner grocer's store. <br>A stolen staple booty was fetched, but yet <br>a meal was not in store-seized at the door! <br>Predetermined ill fate forced him to steal<br>obtaining an incarcerated meal.</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=340815" data-title="The thief de Albert Ahearn" data-description="Recently, I read Kahil Gibran’s prose' The Criminal”. I have read it at least two other times in the past but this recent read had effected me more so than the past reads. So much so, that I was inspired to write this sonnet not too long after..."></div> </div> </div>

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