Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, J is for …Jeffreys Sonnet.

“A Jeffreys Sonnet was created by Scott J. Alcorn. It is isosyllabic (only 8 syllable per line), 2 sestets with a cross rhymed couplet (the cross rhyme is in the 2nd to 4th syllable in each of the two lines of the couplet). Also there is a cross rhyme in the first line of the 2nd sestet (between the 2nd to 4th syllable), tying the 1st sestet to the 2nd. So the rhyme scheme would be: aabccb, (b)ddeffe, (e)g (g)e. The letters in ( ) are the cross rhymes.”

Ok, this is pretty bad, but I had fun with it (and it’s been a very long day…)

Time for Bed

When I go to bed, they follow
up the stairs, cats through my legs go
try to trip me so I tumble
right foot goes up and over head
left foot follows, “come on” I said
right at the top, there I stumble

While I bumble, to catch my breath
I hope they do not cause my death
But in the end I make it there
walk through the door, take slippers off
sit down, sign deep, and give a cough
stretch arms up high, brush out my hair

They do not care, cats want some pets
And once they gets, away they tear. 

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter J.