NaPoWriMo 2024 day 6

Pen on top of an open book

Day 6 of NaPoWriMo.

My poem

An attempt at braggadocio.

No chance

I petal to the metal, I'm the first — you can't contest
Even if you flip a coin, you'll never get ahead

Featured poem

A classic poem by Big Willie.

Sonnet 18

by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's chaning course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag though wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

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