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Dreams (Sonnet) by Tiffany

flying above the highway of imagination, taking in all the dreams be told, their fears and joys are a creation, about the way they mold. i smile and cry, and listen to their secrets behold, and how they wish they could all fly, and know that no one told. so their secrets i will keep, about their happy times, and dream about my own dreams as i sleep, about love and rhymes. i’m flying above the highway of imagination, and i’m taking in all the dreams be told.

zodiac 23-Mar-04/7:12 PM
Iambic pentameter. It's 14 lines and pentameter. Though Nikki Giovanni, I think, credits herself with inventing the 'broken sonnet' a deconstructed or subverted form that is not strictly metered, for the political purpose of showing that black people can steal white peoples' art forms too - but why would they want to?

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