Write a sonnet sourced from lines found in newspaper articles. (I took liberties with the form – 12 lines for day 12, ababb, ababb, cc)

Life Design

Smoky-mirror, fleeting pretty, humbling sensation

Spaces, ugly, ill-defined, build boring boundaries

Glimpsing perhaps smugness, perhaps solution

Turn, then and focus on the what of what could be

Different angles open artful possibilities.

Odd landings, obstacles, declare the situation

Narrow life becomes no vision, no inspired entry

Gear up, console, project, design mosaic renovation

Ride vast change right along, reverberating to be, to be

Wasted spaces, closed spaces, must become opportunities.

Bury unfamiliar darker years, add a new interior

Cover dreary ugly view, paint today’s new now in color.

Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 12, 2014. (From Lemons to Lemonade, Marni Jameson)