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# Aspirations
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/aspirations/
- Published: 2021-12-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I view a poem as a puzzle the words must come together thus add some pizzazz and razzle dazzle and the result is worth the fuss the birds will chirp along so sweetly and lovers will embrace discreetly and if you dare...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Onegin Sonnet, Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I view a poem as a puzzle  
the words must come together thus  
add some pizzazz and razzle dazzle  
and the result is worth the fuss  
the birds will chirp along so sweetly  
and lovers will embrace discreetly  
and if you dare, more than embrace  
(and if you don't \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ leave a blank space)  
at last, you feel you are a poet  
and earned your place among the greats  
the lack of recognition grates  
but as they say, at least you know it  
and doubt, your enemy, dissolved  
the words trail off, the puzzle solved

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I view a poem as a puzzle  
the words must come together thus  
add some pizzazz and razzle dazzle  
and the result is worth the fuss  
the birds will chirp along so sweetly  
and lovers will embrace discreetly  
and if you dare, more than embrace  
(and if you don't \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ leave a blank space)  
at last, you feel you are a poet  
and place yourself among the greats  
your audience, though, the ingrates  
does not as yet appear to know it  
oh well, you must write for yourself  
and so I fill up shelf by shelf

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**Author notes:** An Onegin sonnet https://allpoetry.com/contest/2795466-Give-me-a-Pushkin-Sonnet--Big-Points-