will can be understood

The sonnet notebook might be lightly done
when there’s no recipe too wrong for thought:
a  first appraisal rather jumped the gun.
But fairly put. If order may be taught

Active minds require examination,
honesty must be measured out and; will.
Will takes a shot, written-up creation
rings, echoes what’s been thought while still

between the tenor and the vehicle,
the general and the one, human impact
stays the course in spark and particle
of minds uncaught save they are held  intact.

So this chase goes on, more calm, more careful
and not rhyme alone, no, rhyme’s a trifle.

This season i will mainly be writing sonnets,  for the exercise in form.  With a dozen or so pomes a month I thought pictures would give the notebook an agreeable, renaissance air: appropriate then to start with a drawing or two from Michelangelo's frescoes: here's my copy of an Adam and, probably, an Eve. For other guidance, MB's own sonnets might have lost some quality in translation, Shakespeare was brilliant though his light is cold and now Ba Browning looks warmer, at first glance warmer, so I'm curling up with her Sonnets from the Portuguese. EBB is very good.