Sonnet 2: Banishment is a writer’s objective

BY MICHAEL DOM

For my fellow writers

O writer! Your quill quivers in its mark!
As a light shines in the gathering dark
While people struggle towards some vision
To attest them truths is your sole mission.

In prose and in poem may you reveal
Festering lies and felonious deals
Despite those who censor please persevere
Your ink is the ichor your foes fear!

Banishment is a writer's objective
By this we know our foes were attentive
By their displeasure our work is measured
And one day our toil is truly treasured.

Take up your quills and prepare to question
The quest for truth is a path to heaven.

Comments

[Michael Dom]

Mr Soaba - that is thrilling news!

Thank you for your eloquent words on Sonnet 2 and thank you for your readiness to review the manuscript of "At Another Crossroads".

I'll certainly make sure I get a copy of that edition of the Post Courier.

By the way, perhaps someone down at Lawes Road can find out if we can get the paper delivered to Bubia again.

We used to receive the Post Courier daily and I usually paid two weeks in advance for my copies.

But for the better part of last and this year we've had nothing but the competition. Logistics?

[Russell Soaba]

Michael - This is a good poem. It cuts through the gut of the barricade that seeks to censure, to diminish. But the quill dances still, and braces to march forth into the dawn of our literary aspirations.

This Saturday, in the Weekend Courier, I hope the guys down at Lawes Road put out a brief review of "At another Crossroads", which I hope will appear together with Drusilla Modjeska's monumental new novel, "The Mountain".

I hope it comes out so that we can start building a new library, afresh. Buy your copy.