Out Like a Lamb

Kansas

Dorothy moves to click her ruby shoes
but feels first the stopping of her heart
she turns around, and once again she views
those friends from whom she loathes to e're depart

The lion, caught no longer by his fear
feels new emotions stirring in his breast
and on his furry face there coursed a tear -
(its presence, though, he'd violently contest)

The tin man and the scarecrow both had gained
those attributes for which they'd sorely sought
one newly heart-ed, one now newly brained;
against a wish to stop her, each had fought

but here, the moment all had dreaded passed
and home, our heroine arrived - at last.


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April 18—April 18 Prompt: “Stop! In the name of love, before you break my heart!”—write a poem where love turns everything around somehow, or stops a course of action, or stops everything!

Most sonnets have fourteen lines, an iambic pentameter, and a rhyme scheme. They fall into one of four categories: Miltonic, Spenserian, Petrarchan, and Shakespearean. Shakespearean sonnets have an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme, while Petrarchan sonnets have an abba abba cde cde rhyme scheme.

The first line is borrowed from Guster's "Come Downstairs and Say Hello," with gratitude.