What is in a name...

So I was helping my buddy Matthew last night work on a Sonnet. This was for a class project that he was doing. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme. I really just wanted to write iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is just a fun word to say and write. You know those specifically structured lines of prose composed of 3 quatrains and a couplet each line having ten syllables. Well I started one with the topic of Call of Duty. COD for all you FPS gamers out there. I was doing well until I forgot the whole ten syllable part. Anyway, he came up with a sonnet worthy of Shakespearean praise on his own with which to tantalize the literary senses of his teacher, or not. However, the experience reminded me of a time when I had to write sonnets for some school project or something. SO I thought I would try and complete a sonnet for the blog. Here it goes:

The Random Ramble

A random sonnet wrote 'bout love and truth;
Many nice things believed by young and old;
Yet so often there appears traits uncouth;
Something so bright and warm growing dark, cold.

So many people strive to attain it;
Blood, sweat, tears shed on its long winding path;
Trial after trial resulting in "I quit;"
Lives shattered by the journey's aftermath.

O', why the subjection to all this pain;
Is it meant such a forbidden desire;
Can this destruction be for any gain;
Through all this struggle remains burning fire.

In the end, it is sure worth all the cost;
Once true love abounds, it is never lost.

Cheesy, I'll agree. I'll kick it around some and see what else I can rattle out of my head. Since most sonnets are centered around the topics of faith and love, I thought I would start there and branch out.

Git R dun.

Give democracy a chance...

Well, the Iraqi elections are over and the counting has begun. Did anyone else catch all the "newspeople" that said something like, "I was surprised that there wasn't more violence." Will these people ever accept the fact that we are doing the right thing, and that this is what the MAJORITY of the Iraqi people want. To listen to these people talk, you would think that we were shoving democracy down there throats with a pitch fork. This is certainly the best thing to happen to this region in decades, and I would even venture to say in millennia. Way to go Iraqi people. We knew you could do it. Well, at least most of the good people of the US of A knew you could do it. Welcome to freedom.