Nonsonnet
The Nonsonnet is one of my personal twists on the traditional sonnet format. Unlike the versions used in The Wedding of the Damned and Contemplations, which share an iambic octameter rhythm and differ slightly in rhyme scheme (AABBA and ABAAB, respectively), a Nonsonnet uses variable-stress quinquedecameter (fifteen syllables, not strictly iambic). It is not narrative, and it uses the standard rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet, minus the final couplet. (Original on dA, imported to Vocal.)
Forgive me my escaping into fantasy and fiction;
The realities in life can be too much for me to bear.
And anyone who looks can see that you are my addiction
When my heart is breaking every day because you are not there.
The days and nights grow longer in the time between your kisses
And I cry myself to sleep when I’m without your sweet embrace.
But when you’re gone I fear that I’m the only one who misses
And that you are unaffected by the absence of my face.
So, if you ever wonder why I read and write so often
It is only to abate these fears and worries when they rage.
Your presence and your voice aside, the only things that soften
All the blades of pain inside me are the words upon a page.
