NaPoWriMo 2024 day 11

Pen on top of an open book

Day 11 of NaPoWriMo.

My poem

A Shakespearean sonnet I wrote after hearing about J. Cole apologizing to Kendrick Lamar for a diss track recently.

From J. Fold with Love

I never meant to diss you in my track;
The gassing up from friends made me explode.
It took some days to realize it was wack;
You know we're more than brothers on the low.

Your albums aren't bad, I take it back;
I played my hand and now I got to fold.
At first I felt like Gambit on attack;
But now I feel as powerless as Toad.

The hatchet's buied more than six feet deep;
You're the G.O.A.T. we all should truly fear.
To show you that I'm saying what I mean,
Listen to this brilliant idea:

Just so we even up the score,
Please use my diss track beat to diss me more.

Featured poem

A poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 called Sonnet 43 was written for her husband Robert.

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

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