Form / Stream / Tow [sonnet for Pragya]

Pragya Thakur -- you whose name
evokes the child whom God became
sometimes forms spring from of yore
else if new what's fresh they frame

take the sonnet -- sure it can be
in old pentamentric lines -- but see
elsewise at quatrametric length
the poem might sense its liberty?

or hexametric -- heck! (whatever)
rules are fashioned post-endeavor
forms come forth from poets first
& the poem becomes (afresh) a center

whence new possible streams might flow
listening close for the undertow

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Responsive to a most engaging rumination about reading & appreciating poetry (and, to a degree, regarding poetic form).