Fly Away

in a Cornish Sonnet

The time has come to spread your wings and fly,
so find that suitcase packed with all your dreams
and bid commercial rat race goodbye.
The clock will rule our lives with its tick-tock,
unless we can develop other schemes:
Mozart's symphonies or hillbilly rock.

If you follow the rhythm of your heart,
the sunrise will wrap you in its gorgeous robe
and serve you coffee cake or apple tart
from Mother Nature's ravishing snack bar.
Wherever you may wander on this globe,
always be faithful to who you are.

The time has come to spread your wings and fly,
so just follow the rhythm of your heart.

Notes ▶︎

1. The Cornish Sonnet is an intriguing blend of rhyme and repetition with a rhyme scheme of Abacbc Dedfef AD, where upper case letters represent refrains, as described and demonstrated in the following link: https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1057-cornish-sonnet/

2. Written for the "The Writer's Cramp"  contest with the prompt:
End your poem or story with the following sentence - and bold this for tomorrow's judge:
Follow the rhythm of your heart.