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CHAIN SONNET

Q: What is a Chain Sonnet

A: A chain sonnet is a sonnet form that contains not just one sonnet but several sonnets (at least two) with the same final verse couplet. The couplet serves as the link. Each sonnet in the chain is in itself a complete sonnet but together they deal with same subject matter.

The Chain Sonnet is an African invention-adaptation of the Sonnet tradition (because I invented it as an African) I also call my sonnets African Sonnets because the way we speak English in Africa it will be difficult to match our word stresses with that of the United Kingdom or United States of America. Therefore although I still utilise the ten meter beat for each line, the beats are not iambic.

LOST INNOCENCE

PART 1

CREATION OF MAN

(God)
In his thoughts the being of all forms of life
Racing thoughts… his creative prowess flee
The decrees of contentious battle-strife
Thrust into the atmosphere’s fertile sea

(Creatures)
Eloquence speaks and lovely creatures form
Silence hides beneath the watery strongholds
While above the loquacious raging storm
Brings to birth prototypical life moulds

(Man)
An eastern wind blows on the earth’s surface
Leaving in its brief wake a form called man
The north wind brings breath to his lifeless face
Adamic nomenclature thus began

(Lament)
Eve, Eve mother of all what has thou done?
Guilty waves swell and innocence has gone!

2:10 am 1st February 2000

PART 2

CREATION OF EVE

(God)
In man the Almighty reverberates
By his breath, man became a living soul
And the glory of the Lord celebrates
In Adam’s enigmatic hyperbole

(Adam)
By himself, man could not reproduce life
“It is not good for man to be alone”
But under the Eternal Surgeon’s knife
A rib removed, becomes a semi clone

(Eve)
Suddenly, like a flower’s emergence
Blooms forth from the belly of the dark night
Eve from Adam broke free of submergence
To bask in the bright sunshine of daylight

(Lament)
Eve, Eve mother of all what has thou done?
Guilty waves swell and innocence has gone!

2:27pm 1st February 2000

PART 3

EVE MEETS THE SERPENT

(The Serpent)
A smooth kaleidoscopic symphony
Plexus myriad of colours radiates
In choreographic movement synchrony
An uncommon beauty, which fascinates

(Eve)
Prepubescent nascent maturity
Nudity…virginal and innocent
Softly speaking of untouched purity
Harbours endearing natural accent

(The Nexus)
Slippery, slithery and very subtle
The serpent invades her innocent mind
Subjugating her innocuous mettle
Holding her in a captivating bind

(Lament)
Eve, Eve mother of all what has thou done?
Guilty waves swell and innocence has gone!

30th January 2000

PART 4

SEDUCTION OF EVE

(Alteration)
Up close and personal, eyeball to eyeball
The serpent drains her essential substance
By substrusive capture without a brawl
Altering her consciousness in an instance

(Loosening)
A thing, an act to which she was averse
But suddenly in her heart desire swells
Emotive gears are thrown into reverse
Letting loose water from her deep spring wells

(Ecstasy?)
“The fruit is surely good for food,” she says
“Certainly pleasant to the eyes,” she moans
Sensations from body to soul relays…
As the serpentine creature in her groans

(Lament)
Eve, Eve mother of all what has thou done?
Guilty waves swell and innocence has gone!

5:00pm 31st January 2000

PART 5

A NEW EVE

(Body)
A new bodily feature undulates
Supreme curvature hyperbolism
Laced with fragrant and visual accentuates
Richly dressed in subtle symbolism

(Soul)
Her furnace stokes of a burning desire
Inducing graceful serpentine motions
Speaking volumes of subterranean fire
In the dungeons of subconscious notions

(Spirit)
A startling new spirituality sighs
Like the first yawning of a breaking dawn
In her new morning wake emergence lies
Wide-eyed like a fallow deer’s new born fawn

(Lament)
Eve, Eve mother of all what has thou done?
Guilty waves swell and innocence has gone!

5:25pm 31st January 2000

PART 6

ADAM AND EVE

THE LAND OF CARNAL CRUDITY

(Adam)
Adam roamed free in his garden domain
Painting his person in the atmosphere
Establishing his kingdom and terrain
In the strength of his sceptre’s fiery fare

(Eve)
Eve loosened by her serpentine colours
Presented a panoramic concept
Permitting a variety of detours
From the path of the eternal precept

(The Nexus)
Adam in the embrace of Eve’s fresh form
Enticed by her alluring nudity
The currents of her strange passions transform…
All to the land of carnal crudity

(Lament)
Eve, Eve mother of all what has thou done?
Guilty waves swell and innocence has gone!

1:38am 2nd of February 2000

PART 7

INNOCENCE HAS GONE

(Two Birds)
Guilt’s wings spread like a shadow overcast
Innocence wings spread ready to take flight
Birds of plumaged in opposition cast
One of the day, the other of the night

(Weeping)
Innocence weeps for days of old gone by
When she was supreme in all men’s affairs
Her scepter’s reign waves a tearful goodbye
Even as guilt’s strides gain arrogant airs

(Goodbye)
Hypoglycemia berths at harbour’s dock
On the coastline of humanity’s range
Strength is gone in the frame of ticking clock
Time flies and innocence becomes so strange

(Lament)
Eve, Eve mother of all what has thou done?
Guilty waves swell and innocence has gone!

10:13am 2nd of February 2000