Beyond the Dam – The second of the four sonnets
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Here we have another version of a Beyond the Dam sonnet … when he got carried away with his rhyming dictionary.
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Penobscot Perversed
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The sonnet with this title first
Was like the river, poorly versed.
The water ran with foam – the worst –
With pulp and water interspersed.
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The deer and bear once came athirst
But left, their stomachs far the worst.
And thus before the dam had nursed
The waiting waters quite perverse.
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The cardboard channel choked accurst.
I wonder how the courts then durst
To let the river go amerced
But over the dam the stream dispersed.
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So if the reader’s patience has burst,
Please turn the page thus better versed.