Today’s challenge – The Bop! ” the Bop is a kind of combination sonnet + song. Like a Shakespearan sonnet, it introduces, discusses, and then solves (or fails to solve) a problem. Like a song, it relies on refrains and repetition”
I actually wrote two poems. Up uncharacteristically early, my first effort was not really to my satisfaction. Then the internet went down. So I tried again. It may not really bop, but I think I may have managed to write my first sonnet!
Rx
The way we live now – obese, addicted
and over our collective sleepy heads,
in debt to octane, oligarchs and dead
from the eyes down. Industry evicted.
The buckles rusted, belt redundant now.
Aground. Or drowning . Not enough life boats
to go around.
Connection is the cure.
Despair has a terminal prognosis.
Connect. Try the trees before the woodland,
Or take up colour, bold instead of bland.
Persist. Surprise yourself. And focus.
Again I say, Focus! Be here and now.
There is plenty enough to keep afloat.
The scientific hope to share around:
Connection is the cure.
Sojourning Smith 