My first Sonnet Exercise

Shall I not bring home the chocolate cake?
I 've been educated not to waste

luggage has been packed like a hippo, not fake.

The flight won't wait,  I 'd better make  haste.

 

I ask  the front desk  about the bus routine,

And the girl says it is coming fast.

Seeing their restaurant ad with poutine,

Reminds me of my unfinished breakfast.

But I  don't want to put on weight.

Maybe I will just have the cake saved?
My seat number is 16F which is eight plus eight,
Sitting next to me, is a man with bear shaved.

 

So long Toronto! The vigorous city, my fave,
what's left of me are the memories my family gave.

 

Shakespeare's Sonnet #18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

by William Shakespeare