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# The Unloved Sonnet
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-unloved-sonnet/
- Published: 2022-01-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I go through the prerequisite clichés and prune them out as needed for the tale no more comparing her to summer days and synonyms for roses, bound to fail my problem is, he simply wrote too much whichever turn of phra...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I go through the prerequisite clichés  
and prune them out as needed for the tale  
no more comparing her to summer days  
and synonyms for roses, bound to fail  
my problem is, he simply wrote too much  
whichever turn of phrase I seek to use  
it's hard without resorting to the crutch  
of using his -- as if we share a muse  
the task is hopeless, no eternal spring  
can fill the void that's left by taking out  
the words as writ by him, what can I bring  
awash in corny phrases and self doubt

and yet the venerable form does tempt  
so try I must, and here is one attempt

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2797370-Write-a-new-sonnet--that-is-neither-on-love