Too many sonnets
Channel: Marnanel Thurman
Date: 2013-05-22

Thomas Thurman reads his poem "Too many sonnets" at the Bar des Arts in Guildford, 21st May 2013.

"Too many sonnets", reads this curt rejection. 
Too many sonnets? Can the news be true? 
This polished work is workshopped to perfection, 
a classic form recast to something new. 
But still, I'll keep them coming while I'm living, 
and when I'm old and sinking into death 
I'll write a final sonnet of thanksgiving 
and gasp the couplet in my final breath.
And then in death, what nightmares may inspire? 
Within the circle of the realms infernal 
reserved for sonneteers, I'll write in fire 
to send to "Styx Review," or some such journal, 
and if there's surplus sonnets there in hell... 
well... then I may compose a villanelle.