The Happy Hare

I hope everyone had a great Easter!  I know it's a bit later than when I usually post but that's just because I had to finish writing this one today.  Due to the rather rushed circumstances this may not be my best work so it should provide ample opportunity for any constructive criticism you care to offer.  As far is my Easter weekend goes, it was permeated with food, family, more food, sleeping, procrastination on my homework, and my inability to concentrate long enough to write something so I'd say it was a semi-successful weekend.  I hope I'll be able to regain some semblance of a normal writing schedule this week so I won't have to do this whole last-minute business again next week.  However, the ever approaching AP tests may put a damper on my desire to write so heads up I might have to put a hold on the sonnet writing for a few weeks.  Even so, I plan to post at least a little bit about my week and perhaps some of my non-sonnet previous work.  Until then, I"ll just focus on writing as much as I can before my brain becomes more fried than a cheese stick at the Minnesota State Fair.  I hope you enjoy this week's sonnet.  I spent a whole three hours on it!

I'm not quite sure how I wrote what I did...  I guess I was sort of looking to write a spin-off of my sonnet from a couple weeks ago but it kind of turned into its own entity.  Enjoy!

The Happy Hare

Abiding laws intrinsic compass ere

Ne'er bear the faultless fleshy hare amiss.

Resilient dances round all thicket snare

Beholden hare in certain snug abyss.

Moreover dare should happy hare collide

With hapless stray. Now seeking sustenance

Whereto both boxing kindred feud aside

This teeming fount of wholesome corpulence.

Survive? the two beseech aforesaid such

Existence cheap, albeit one, indeed!

Far more than any other. Winner clutch

Subsistence such yet not in that of greed.

If hitherto I writ effect dismay

In you, let pass, tis naught but Nature's way.

Completion date: 4/11/2012

Unpublished material, ©2012 Neal Digre

A Stray

I'm sooo ready to be done with high school!  These past few weeks have gone by extremely slowly and I"m just ready to move onto the next stage of life.  I realize my blogging skills about my life are rather dry so I'm going to try and work on my life-blogging skillery.  The main focus of this blog, though, will always be the sonnets, so if you'd rather not even bother reading what I have to stay about my weekly doings you can just skip over this first paragraph. I wouldn't be offended in the slightest.  Now, on to the sonnet.

This sonnet is rather self explanatory as to how I came to write it.  Enjoy!



A Stray

A suckling cat appeared upon my porch.

A stray. I ran for fear it was aggrieved.

Her only ailment, though, now I've perceived

That trembling ember in the fading torch

Of those exhausted yellow eyes that scorch

My soul with warmth, a mother's heart bereaved...

Forgotten. Paw for pittance not received,

And she moves on – the Nature of my porch.

With utter ease my hand did slam that door

Because I did not want that cat to stay.

Oh God! Oh please! Protect her I implore!

I watched her haggard form just slip away

Beyond all sight, beyond all time. No more.

Still I leave scraps of food for Her – a stray.

Completion date: 3/17/2012

Unpublished material, ©2012 Neal Digre