“Homeland” A Curtal Sonnet
by Marie Elena
Photo by Daniel Kain
Confession time: I sometimes watch Fox News.
And CNN. And MSNBC.
Still here? Okay. Now let me tell you why:
These folks are out to shape our nation’s views.
And even though I’m thankful speech is free,
Both left and right have somehow gone awry.
I fear our news is, by design, whitewashed.
No more can we agree to disagree.
Our nation needs a friendly meal. With pie.
Let’s eat good food and talk. And then you wash,
I’ll dry.
© Marie Elena Good, 2017
Excited and humbled to discover this poem sneaked into Robert Lee Brewer’s Curtal Sonnet Challenge Top Ten! To read the winning poem (Under the Rainbow by respected poet Jane Shlensky) and the other Top Ten poems, follow this link:
http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/wd-poetic-form-challenge-curtal-sonnet
I love this.
Thank you so much, Sarah!
Love this Marie, and I feel and suffer from the same squint-eyed-news-syndrome malaise. This deserves being in top ten. Well done.
Thank you so much, Damon! And yep, we are in a heap of trouble. But nothing our God is surprised or dismayed by. Counting on Him to pull us through to the other side.