The World's Divided into Boys and Girls -
Like Dark and Light, Wet/Dry, Silence and Noise:
One's pleasant, while the other just annoys.
Maturer Ladies, in twinset and pearls,
Nose wrinkling with disgust while their lip curls,
Aren't necessarily life's greatest joys,
But nor are Bearded Men with Smelly Toys
Like Cars and Bikes that churn the mud in swirls.
The rule is: Boys Want Sex, while Girls Need Love,
But both are ready to stick out their necks
To get the one thing they desire above
All else, not noticing that this one wrecks
That one, not thinking that too hard a shove
THAT way will tilt you THIS: Life's more Complex.
When Light's too Bright, you can't tell Hawk from Dove.


NB This was my contribution to a Year 9 lesson in sonnet-writing, for which we wrote big lists of rhyme words - though to tell the truth, we only did Girls and Boys for the octave; Love and Sex for the sestet was my idea alone, and as I'm a supply teacher, that other lesson may never be taught (or learned, for that matter).

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