120 Schoolboyish Petrarchan Sonnets

<I>120 'Schoolboyish Petrarchan Sonnets</I> is a collection composed in a rather basic manner that essentially consisted of starting with a first word and then 'merely running' with that same word.</p><P>The aforementioned schoolboyish aspect of the entire collection should not at all detract from a sense that a sonnet can be very narrow and also highly ornate. The various individual examples may seem to veer here there and practically everywhere in terms of possible 'meanings'; meanwhile each sonnet may be in strict keeping or almost strict keeping with the apparently preferred formulaics of John Keats and of the sprung-rhythm 'master' Gerard Manley Hopkins.</p><P><I><center>SOME FORESTS </p>Some forests must be rich and lovely parts <br>of earthly wishes for a wondrous day<br>whose every moment soon might seem to say<br>kind words that speak of splendor that restarts.<br>Implicit in a wooded world are charts<br>on which might seem to thrive a fine array<br>of plants and animals that surely pay<br>obeisances eclipsing human arts. <br>Endangered though all forests now must seem <br>a great resilience rules what Nature is<br>till wondrousness will not go up in steam. <br>Perfection forms an adamantine fizz<br>permitting anything to form a dream<br>in which a million shadows dart and whiz.</i></center></p>