I love the sound of the sea, so one day
my friend and me set out on a small boat
from the brook near his house. I heard him say
I think this is the way, if we can float
and not look back, just go, dare I say flow,
to where the slow speeds up a bit, we might
come to a bend or fork, I do not know
for sure, but who does? This may well prove us right—
—or wrong. Life, as they say, can be a song
you sing out loud or just a ton of work.
My friend was not the type to think for long
on thoughts he did not like. He was no shirk.
The shark that took him flipped our boat, then spat
him out. We swam to shore, and that was that!
~~~
One of my favourite improv games is to play a scene or tell a story in words of only one syllable. This is a sonnet written in the same spirit.
© Elaine Stirling, 2018
Oceantics 
Nice! I’m curious, though, about “my friend and me.” Ungrammatical, but a nice internal rhyme. A conscious trade off?
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Yep. Conscious. Enjambing is one of my favourite techniques, especially in sonnets, because it tends to create spontaneous internal rhyme. So when something like “my friend and me” appears, I allow my inner grammarian a brief tut-tut, then send her on her way. Thank for reading, Mikels. I love questions about craft.
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