My Poem: Nile's sonnet: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Nile's sonnet
Fandom: The Old Guard
Character: Nile Freeman
Poetic form: English sonnet
Length: 103
Rating: Gen

the soldier dies to be reborn again
the bleeding stops without warning or sign
the skin repairs itself, wounds mend, and then
wild questions rise, by whose or what design

can she die yet defy mortality?
in fog of blank confusion, the soldier stews
until she’s claimed by force of history,
conscripted by unlikely mentor-muse

and family, introductions still new
when sudden call to arms rings out
the soldier knows just what she has to do:
to save the day, her way, and trouble rout

the soldier dies, the warrior’s born, and she
has found a new home, a new way to be

Comments

[ancientreader]

the soldier dies, the warrior’s born
Oooh, NICE.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! That's basically the whole poem.

The amount of The Old Guard poems I've done/want to do surprises me.