I was looking through some of my older stuff and found this one about exploration. It's not only about our physical search for something different, it's about a search for meter within the poem. In this one, all the lines contain 10 "beats," making it pentameter. Line 2 has nine beats, and line 13 has 11, which was purely by accident. I thought for a bit about cleaning it up, so that each line has 10, but I think it would take something away from the poem to do that. This was an attempt at a sonnet, with 3 rhyming quatrains followed by a couplet. I think that's called a Petrarchian sonnet, but it's been a while, and I'm too lazy to look it up to be sure. Anyway, here it is.
Explore
Somber commentary on things that are
examines that which lays on the ground
beneath their feet not those seen from afar
a simple close look at things that are found
Every road must have a destination
or it would never have been built at all
No point in careful investigation
the great is just a lot more of the small
Stand at the corner and look at the field
look far away from where everything stands
Exploration provides the greatest yield
take a cautious stroll in uncharted lands
If you only see what you already know
you'll only confirm that which isn't so
Copyright 2010 Carl Thames
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