Come what may, the fool soldiers on.
Refusing to learn, a foot after the other.
They say to learn from failures
but not learning when to give up.
Giving up means holding your steps—
turning back and trying elsewhere.
After all there are other paths to take,
and similar endings to reach for.
Such endings are similar, not the same;
what you want is simply what you want.
A goal that doesn’t get what you want
is only denying yourself and your falls.
Denying when you keep failing;
come what may, the fool soldiers on.
NaPoWrimo April 27 prompt, a “duplex.” A “duplex” is a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Here’s one of his first “Duplex” poems, and here is a duplex written by the poet I.S. Jones. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It’s organized into seven, two-line stanzas. The second line of the first stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the second stanza, the second line of the second stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the third stanza, and so on. The last line of the poem is the same as the first.
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