I quite like my first Mrs Brown but I suddenly found myself going a little beyond the hay(na)ku sonnet devised by Vincent Gotera and adding not just an envoi to the first but going on to do a second sonnet etc.
Mrs Browns – One & Two
.
- Changeable Weather
.
Sprightly
Mrs Brown
walked to town.
.
Town
so crowded
people, cars, people.
.
Clouds
over town;
forgotten, her umbrella.
.
Wet
Cold, shivering
she stumbles home.
.
Sets her fire
Pours a whisky.
.
Envoi –
.
Pours a whisky
Sets her fire.
.
Mrs Brown
.
- By Royal Command
.
Bury
with me
his mother’s ring.
.
Adjoining
her room
the ghillie slept.
.
Hearsay –
Lewis Harcourt
in his diary.
.
Marriage
not unknown
betwixt servant, monarch.
.
His photograph also
In her hand.
.
Envoi –
.
A faithful servant
Loyal unto death.
Benita H. Kape © 28.4.2015
ghillie – an outdoors servant, Scottish
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