Mabini Sonnet

Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864 — May 13, 1903) was a Filipino political philosopher and revolutionary who wrote a constitutional plan for the First Philippine Republic, and served as its first prime minister until May 1899.

Quatorzain - Generally Iambic Pentameter

Volta at or following line 9

Octet + Sestet

Rhyme scheme: abbaccaa ddaeea

This is a form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines

Example Poem:

All in the Family  (Mabini Sonnet)

I love you dearly, I will make things right.

Just hold that premise near your heart my dear

My callow acts are bound to disappear

as stumbling I learn; I am most contrite.

Yet certainly we can't avoid sorrow

by tracing footsteps into tomorrow.

Ignoring your dad's not too subtle sleight

will quell the arguments which such incite.

He calls me Ivory 'cus I'm not black

and Avery's my name; so cut him slack.

My dad thought interracial was alright.

Your dad will too when our first child is born.

The fringe of bigotry will then be shorn.

It happens.  Then the Grandpa's see the light.

© Lawrencealot - October, 24,2012

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