Featuring work from the Fall 2017 ENG 350 Seminar

Sonnets

Hurricane Spenserian Sonnet

Rescue boats fill a flooded street at flood victims are evacuated as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Hurricanes begin to blow and shall howl.

Forceful air can pummel, glass will shatter!

Salt and sea rise ashore, odor most fowl.

Run! Down rain came ruined people scatter

Treacherous wind rend, unearth the bowel.

The vicious violence muted the matters

Of humankind. Nature’s cruelty shall prowl;

Sweeping debris looms above and gathers,

Offer hopeful words and heal their lesions.

Helping conquered victims compass free rein

Muffle nature’s wrath in horrid seasons

Allow humankind a chance to remain.

Drain drowned cane fields that revealed is their hope

And still bound tight iron woven dreams, cope.

 

By Tiffany Galloway, Ariel Richards and Melissa Ruiz.

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