Marshall Hahn

East Haven, Connecticut

After 30 years on the road sponsoring a young family, Marshall was able to have a mid-life change and short careers in Journalism and college level teaching before retiring to a career as a world traveler. He first started writing sonnets at age 73, while visiting a son in Australia. And in the past three years he has had sonnets published by the National Library of Poetry as well as others and one full folio, "The Aussie Book of Sonnets".

WHAT'S THE POINT

I've been wordsmithing for a long time.
Sometimes serious and sometimes sublime
Yet always I strove for a meaning
In what we now call communicating

But the process has become so devastating.
Fed by an explosion of mass media relating
That "words " have lost all their meaning
In the cacophony of electronic beaming!

Macluann said: "The medium is the message"
To understand this takes a dedicated sage!
Question is, does the message have a meaning
Or are there just "words" you are gleaning?

Before this sonnet you anoint
Pray tell me: What's the point

MARRIAGE ANYONE?

The song says: "Love and Marriage"
Go together like horse and carriage
But, that is in the very beginning
When there is time and reason to sing

Soon the ties that bond begin to fray
And become weaker and fragile each day
What was adamant admiration,
Now becomes mutual toleration

Marriage now is like a game of tennis
A winner and loser being the premise
The players begin to keep endless score
Me wants less -- she always wants more!

Love is nothing and no use
As the players call deuce!

SONNET AT 75

What can we do at seventy five?
To demonstrate we're still alive
At 30,000 feet we can effortlessly fly
Streaking 600 m.p.h. through the sky!

We can watch a fiery sunset
Extinguish all former upset
As wafting palms stand guard:
Over a floating coconut shard

We can crumble in ecstasy
As an orgasm sets us free
To contemplate a lovely life,
In latter days without a wife

Defying all reason and rhyme
Let's do it - one more time!