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TAKING AIM
( a non-violence modern sonnet )
It never changes through the ages, life,
To dwell upon this in a comfort place.
Our world is more & more obsessed with strife.
When sadness settles in one's dreary space.
What Lennon sang in song, happiness is,
These days, even for crim'nals on the run.
Of ev'ry single kind, both hers and his,
But as for me, I'll never own a gun.
In truth, it is the way we'll always be,
No matter where I am, north, east or south.
As for the west, I'll abstain for a fee,
So sayeth I, when I "shoot" off my mouth.
Please learn a thing or two from what I say,
It's not worth getting shot on any day.
.
It never changes through the ages, life,
To dwell upon this in a comfort place.
Our world is more & more obsessed with strife.
When sadness settles in one's dreary space.
What Lennon sang in song, happiness is,
These days, even for crim'nals on the run.
Of ev'ry single kind, both hers and his,
But as for me, I'll never own a gun.
In truth, it is the way we'll always be,
No matter where I am, north, east or south.
As for the west, I'll abstain for a fee,
So sayeth I, when I "shoot" off my mouth.
Please learn a thing or two from what I say,
It's not worth getting shot on any day.
.
Published 14th Jun 2016
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15th Jun 2016 6:33pm
16th Jun 2016 5:30am
What Lennon sang in song, happiness is,
These days, even for crim'nals on the run.
Of ev'ry single kind, both hers and his,
But as for me, I'll never own a gun.
Great write, Jade, I love it all but this stanza hits me on so many levels... I know that the song you reference is "Happiness is a Warm Gun" but whenever I see John Lennon's name, "Imagine" starts playing in my head. Leading me to imagine a different world...
Of ev'ry single kind, both hers and his,
- that's the line that bites me so hard - because that is how they are being marketed now - guns of every kind, for everyone...
Thanks for the write, jade, particularly timely...
geoff
These days, even for crim'nals on the run.
Of ev'ry single kind, both hers and his,
But as for me, I'll never own a gun.
Great write, Jade, I love it all but this stanza hits me on so many levels... I know that the song you reference is "Happiness is a Warm Gun" but whenever I see John Lennon's name, "Imagine" starts playing in my head. Leading me to imagine a different world...
Of ev'ry single kind, both hers and his,
- that's the line that bites me so hard - because that is how they are being marketed now - guns of every kind, for everyone...
Thanks for the write, jade, particularly timely...
geoff
Thank you Geoff.
And the reference to "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is due to the irony of its title, and the method from which Lennon was taken down about a dozen years later.
And the reference to "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is due to the irony of its title, and the method from which Lennon was taken down about a dozen years later.
16th Jun 2016 5:51pm
16th Jun 2016 9:23pm
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- Edited 18th Jun 2016 00:20am
17th Jun 2016 3:05am
I'm beginning to like your sonnets Jade. You have a real expertise in this field. I was looking at some of your other ones on your own web page & was very impressed but was not able/allowed to leave any comment, sadly.
