Sunday Sonnet!

Posted on October 29, 2017 | 22 Comments

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How free are we to think whate’er we wish?
How free are we to speak our every thought?
Are these two luxuries the self-same dish?
Is supping freely not with danger fraught?
What room be there for decent human mores,
When selfishness decries the common cause,
And harbingers of ill constraint deplores?
Concern for others’ needs, no time to pause!
Licentious exercise of thought and speech
Imperils liberties and harmony,
Goodwill from our relationships shall leach,
Exposing vulnerable to villainy.
Freedom to think and then to speak your mind,
Precludes not obligation to be kind!

©Meanderings 2017

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22 responses to “Sunday Sonnet!”

janetweightreed10 | October 29, 2017 at 12:44 | Reply

What an extraordinary photograph of the beautiful bee. Speak honestly but don’t hurt others with words…..lovely Sunday sonnet – Thank you Janet xx

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- Bushka | October 29, 2017 at 12:57 | Reply
  
  Thanks Janet! If only….. 😉 Hugs!
  
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  - janetweightreed10 | October 31, 2017 at 10:12 | Reply
    
    You are always most welcome. I so enjoy reading your poems and your photographs is growing in leaps and bounds. Have a beautiful day. xx
    
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    - Bushka | October 31, 2017 at 16:33 | Reply
      
      Thanks, Janet! Great pleasure. Hugs!
      
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huttsfantasticworld | October 29, 2017 at 20:22 | Reply

A busy bee, and we will not expand on the words. It is a great photograph.

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- Bushka | October 29, 2017 at 20:32 | Reply
  
  Thanks Peter. 🙂
  
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huttsfantasticworld | October 29, 2017 at 20:23 | Reply

http;//petesnewwriteplace.blogspot.co.nz Have a look some time.

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- Bushka | October 29, 2017 at 20:32 | Reply
  
  Yeah. I do pop in occasionally… 😉
  
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huttsfantasticworld | October 29, 2017 at 20:25 | Reply

http://petesnewwriteplace.blogspot.co.nz/2017/10/the-irish-lads-and-aussie-taxidriver.html

Try this instead.

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- Bushka | October 29, 2017 at 20:31 | Reply
  
  Excellent Peter…..Clever Aussies…. 😉 Hugs!
  
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huttsfantasticworld | October 30, 2017 at 10:23 | Reply

Take care up there mate.

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- Bushka | October 30, 2017 at 16:00 | Reply
  
  Thanks Peter….Will try! 😉
  
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deacongill | October 30, 2017 at 17:31 | Reply

I couldn’t agree more. Once again your sonnet reminds me of Milton: perhaps a conscious ‘homage’ on your part?
‘That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood,
And still revolt when truth would set them free.
Licence they mean when they cry liberty;
For who loves that, must first be wise and good. ‘ (Sonnet 12)

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- Bushka | October 30, 2017 at 20:15 | Reply
  
  Thanks, Gill. Only remembered ‘vaguely’ this one of Milton after I had written my one. Honoured to remind you of Milton. Love his poetry! Hugs!
  
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  - deacongill | October 31, 2017 at 14:37 | Reply
    
    Yes, I find some of these enduring phrases are so much part of my subconscious that they emerge quite automatically!
    
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    - Bushka | October 31, 2017 at 16:33 | Reply
      
      Happens to me as well… 😉 Hugs!
      
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jilldennison | October 31, 2017 at 02:38 | Reply

I absolutely love the picture of the bee … he looks as if he has tiny sunglasses on! And your sonnet is so very relevant in our world today. With freedoms and rights ought to come responsibilities, but too often we forget that we can state our opinion, speak freely, and yet at the same time maintain civility.
Hugs!!! ❤

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- Bushka | October 31, 2017 at 16:37 | Reply
  
  Indeed! Too many people ask not for ‘Freedom’ but for unrestricted ‘Licence’.. 😉
  
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snowbird | November 1, 2017 at 19:20 | Reply

What a fantastic poem and image! How well they sit together.xxx

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- Bushka | November 1, 2017 at 19:34 | Reply
  
  Thanks D! Much appreciated! Hugs!
  
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huttsfantasticworld | November 3, 2017 at 01:13 | Reply

Actually I have WordPress back online and have begun posting.

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- Bushka | November 3, 2017 at 14:16 | Reply
  
  Excellent! Look forward to reading. Do I have to ‘re-follow’? 😉
  
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